Patents Assigned to IT Corporation
  • Speaker apparatus
    Patent number: 7653209
    Abstract: A speaker apparatus includes at least one of an inner flux applicator and an outer flux applicator includes an annular first member and an annular second member. The first member having a first surface that faces toward the magnetic gap, the first member satisfying L1>W1 where L1 is a length of the first surface in a direction parallel to the central axis and W1 is a width of the first member in a direction orthogonal to a central axis. The second member is magnetically coupled with the first member and arranged on an outer side of the first member, the second member satisfying W2>L2 where W2 is a width of the second member in a direction orthogonal to a central axis and L2 is a length of the second surface in a direction parallel to the central axis, and L1>L2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Abe, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
  • Remedies and/or preventives for nervous system disorders
    Patent number: 7652017
    Abstract: A therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for nervous system disorder comprising as the active ingredient substances having an effect of improving calcium ion uptake of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum and/or an effect of inhibiting overaccumulation of intracellular calcium ions is offered. Preferably, the therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for disease selected from the group consisting of cerebrovascular disease, traumatic head injury and postencephalitis and the therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for disease selected from the group consisting of dementia and neuronal degeneration disease are offered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yuki, Naruhiko Yoshii
  • Learning statistically characterized resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model
    Patent number: 7653535
    Abstract: A statistical trajectory speech model is constructed where the targets for vocal tract resonances are represented as random vectors and where the mean vectors of the target distributions are estimated using a likelihood function for joint acoustic observation vectors. The target mean vectors can be estimated without formant data. To form the model, time-dependent filter parameter vectors based on time-dependent coarticulation parameters are constructed that are a function of the ordering and identity of the phones in the phone sequence in each speech utterance. The filter parameter vectors are also a function of the temporal extent of coarticulation and of the speaker's speaking effort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alejandro Acero
  • Articulating windguard for agricultural baler
    Patent number: 7650741
    Abstract: A windguard is adapted to be attached to the frame of a crop pickup in overlying relationship to the pickup tine rotor so as to control the incoming flow of crop materials. A transversely extending crop hold down portion of the windguard is pivotally supported between the front ends of a pair of fore-and-aft extending support arms that are pivotally attached at their rear ends to the frame of the pickup so that the windguard can articulate as it is moved up and down relative to the pickup by engagement with inflowing crop material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Graber, Ryan A. Zecha
  • Apparatus and method for employing a DC source with an uninterruptible power supply
    Patent number: 7652393
    Abstract: At least one aspect is directed to an uninterruptible power supply including an I/O and an output in electrical communication with the I/O. The UPS also includes electronic circuitry which is adapted to, in a first mode of operation, receive power from the I/O and convert the AC power to DC power. The electronic circuitry is also adapted to, in a second mode of operation, receive DC power and to provide AC power to the I/O. The electronic circuit is further adapted to, in the first mode of operation, convert the DC power to AC power and to provide the AC power at the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation
    Inventor: Klaus Moth
  • Digital camera with projector and digital camera system
    Patent number: 7653304
    Abstract: A digital camera equipped with a projector, includes a photographing device; a projector device that projects an optical image; a mode switching operation member that outputs a switching operation signal indicating a changeover to one of a photographing operation mode in which image data photographed by the photographing device are saved as a photographic image file in a recording medium and a projection operation mode in which a reproduced image is projected by the projector device; a top surface operation member disposed at an upper surface of a casing; and a projection control device that controls the projector device based upon an operation signal provided by the top surface operation member upon receiving a switching operation signal indicating a changeover to the projection operation mode from the mode switching operation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotake Nozaki, Nobuhiro Fujinawa, Akira Ohmura
  • Standby current erasion circuit of DRAM
    Patent number: 7652290
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a standby current erasion circuit applied in DRAM, which improves prior art word line driving circuit to have the word line voltage outputted in standby mode be equal to the bit line voltage, thereby the short DC standby current between the word line and bit line can be erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yu-Chang Lin
  • Ratioed feedback body voltage bias generator
    Patent number: 7652523
    Abstract: A current mirror circuit includes a reference current source that generates a reference current, a reference transistor, a mirror transistor and a ratioed body bias feedback unit. The reference transistor has a first node that is coupled to the output of the reference current source, a gate that is coupled to the first node and a second node coupled to a common voltage. The mirror transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. The ratioed body bias feedback unit generates a body bias voltage coupled to the body of the reference transistor and the body of the mirror transistor. The ratioed body bias feedback unit is configured to adjust the body bias voltage in relationship to the common voltage so that the reference transistor and the mirror transistor each have a threshold voltage within a predefined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Baumgartner, Patrick L. Rosno, Dana M. Woeste
  • Remote protocol support for communication of large objects in arbitrary format
    Patent number: 7653749
    Abstract: A server computer provides objects such as bitmaps representing graphics image for processing by a client computer or device. The object may be of any arbitrary size or format, and is converted to a data structure that can be received by the client computer. Synchronized metadata may be included in the data structure, where such metadata data is used by an application in the client computer or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul L Coleman, Wilhelm Schmieder, John Parsons, Nadim Abdo, Joy Chik
  • Electronic element arrangement method and voltage controlled oscillator using the same
    Patent number: 7652543
    Abstract: A method for arranging electronic elements is provided. The method is suitable for a set of N electronic elements in which N is an odd number. The set of N electronic elements include a first electronic element subset and a second electronic element subset. The electronic elements of the first electronic element subset are arranged according a first predetermined method and the electronic elements of the second electronic element subset are arranged according to a second predetermined method, wherein the second electronic element subset is adjacent to the first electronic element subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Princeton Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Hung Chi, Hisn-Kuang Chen
  • Determination of point of sand production initiation in wellbores using residual deformation characteristics and real time monitoring of sand production
    Patent number: 7653488
    Abstract: Predicting sand production in a wellbore. A first set of characteristics is determined for a formation in the wellbore, wherein determining uses a plastic model of the formation, and wherein the first set of characteristics comprises a yield surface, a failure surface, a stress total strain, an elastic strain, and a plastic-strain relationship. A relationship among a second set of characteristics of the wellbore is determined using an effective stress model, wherein the second set comprises a drawdown pressure, a production rate, pore pressure, a temperature and a viscosity of a fluid in the wellbore, a fluid flow pressure in the wellbore, a drag force of fluid flow in the wellbore, and a type of fluid flow in the wellbore. A critical total strain is determined for the formation using the first set of characteristics and the relationship. The critical total strain is calibrated using a thick wall test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ali I. Mese, Colin Michael Sayers, Robert Andrew Holicek, Dan Shan, Donald W. Lee, Jorge Aurelio Santa Cruz Pastor
  • Display device comprising display driver having display driving section formed between transistors providing electric current thereto
    Patent number: 7649528
    Abstract: The first and second chips are provided side by side. The first chip includes: a current supply section for outputting a drive current, the current supply section including a current mirror; a current distribution MISFET; a current input MISFET for transmitting an electric current to the current supply section, the current input MISFET being connected to the current distribution MISFET; and a second current distribution MISFET. The current distribution MISFET and the second current distribution MISFET constitute a current mirror. The second chip includes a second current input MISFET which is connected to the second current distribution MISFET. The ratio between the W/L ratio of the current distribution MISFET and the W/L ratio of the current input MISFET connected thereto is the same in the first and second chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshito Date, Tetsuro Omori, Shiro Dosho, Makoto Mizuki
  • Communication relay apparatus and relay connector unit
    Patent number: 7648388
    Abstract: A communication relay apparatus includes a first connecting section for connecting to a first wire harness connected to an electronic control device, a second connecting section for connecting to a second wire harness connected to a plurality of electronic equipments, a communication address setting section which has a plurality of connection portions and sets a communication address for the electronic control device with a conducting pattern based on presence or absence of conduction at the connection portions, and a communication relay section which is electrically connected to the first connecting section and the second connecting section, and relays communication between the electronic control device and the electronic equipments on the basis of the communication address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Takashi Gohara, Ken Ito
  • Semiconductor structures incorporating multiple crystallographic planes and methods for fabrication thereof
    Patent number: 7649243
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor mesa located upon an isolating substrate. The semiconductor mesa includes a first end that includes a first doped region separated from a second end that includes a second doped region by an isolating region interposed therebetween. The first doped region and the second doped region are of different polarity. The semiconductor structure also includes a channel stop dielectric layer located upon a horizontal surface of the semiconductor mesa over the second doped region. The semiconductor structure also includes a first device located using a sidewall and a top surface of the first end as a channel region, and a second device located using the sidewall and not the top surface of the second end as a channel. A related method derives from the foregoing semiconductor structure. Also included is a semiconductor circuit that includes the semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Edward J. Nowak, Jed H. Rankin
  • Method of electroless deposition of thin metal and dielectric films with temperature controlled stages of film growth
    Patent number: 7648913
    Abstract: A film formation method is provided which includes positioning an object within an electroless deposition apparatus having means for instantaneous temperature control of the object and electrolessly depositing a material upon the object. More specifically, the method includes instantaneously changing the temperature of the object by the means of instantaneous control at one or more predetermined times during the step of electrolessly depositing the material, wherein the predetermined times correspond to different film-growth stages of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventor: Igor C. Ivanov
  • Soft error rate hardened latch
    Patent number: 7649396
    Abstract: A latch is provided that includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a first latch circuit and a second latch circuit. The first inverter to receive the first clock signal from an input port and to provide a clock signal. The second inverter to receive the first clock signal from the input port and to provide a clock signal. The first latch circuit is to store data and to receive a clock signal from the second inverter. The second latch circuit is further to store data and to receive a clock signal from the first inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Balkaran Gill, Norbert Seifert
  • Information-recording apparatus, information reproduction apparatus, information-recording method, information reproduction method and computer program
    Patent number: 7650646
    Abstract: A recording or reproduction apparatus is provided which utilizes copyright information in operations to record content data onto a recording medium or reproduce content data from the recording medium. Copyright information for the contents includes information identifying an input source of the content data. The information identifying an input source is stored in the recording medium along with the content data. When the contents are reproduced from the recording medium, the input source information is acquired and used as a basis for determining whether the contents can be reproduced and output. Thus, it is possible to impose an output restriction on an operation to reproduce the contents in accordance with the input source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Asano, Masanobu Nakamura
  • Electronic component package
    Patent number: 7649235
    Abstract: The electronic component package includes a mounting board, an electronic component and a molding resin. An external electrode is disposed on a surface of the mounting board. The electronic component connected to the mounting board via the external electrode includes a component-substrate, a device, a component-cover and a protector made of resin. The component-substrate comprising a piezoelectric body includes a first surface on which the device is disposed and a second surface opposing the first surface. The component-cover covers the first surface of the substrate and the device. The protector provided on the second surface contains filler. The molding resin covers the electronic component on the mounting board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Takano
  • Common media consumption across multiple media processing systems via single user control
    Patent number: 7650414
    Abstract: A system and method for the management of common consumption of media in a media exchange network is disclosed. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for control by a first user at a first location in a media exchange network of the simultaneous consumption of media content by other users at other locations in the media exchange network. The media content consumed may comprise audio, still pictures, video, and data. The first user may consume the media content simultaneous with the consumption of the other users, and the media content may be stored at the location of the first user, or at other locations in the media exchange network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D Bennett
  • Handset
    Patent number: D608324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Wei-Jones He