Patents Assigned to IT Corporation
  • Travelator, moving ramp or escalator
    Publication number: 20090050443
    Abstract: A travelator, moving ramp or escalator for transporting passengers, comprises a conveyor mounted on a frame that is supported on a fixed structure. The frame comprises a number of mutually identical profiled metallic bodies joined together end to end one after the other and containing coupling, supporting and/or guide elements integrated in the profiled metallic body of solid material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Esko Aulanko, Jorma Mustalahti, Marc Ossendorf
  • Automatic dual receiver in a multi-wavelength fiber optic system
    Publication number: 20090052910
    Abstract: An optical-to-electrical converter may include and/or involve a splitter to separate one or more narrowcast signals from a broadcast signal, at least one broadcast signal receiver to receive the broadcast signal separated from one or more narrowcast signals, at least one narrowcast signal receiver to receive the narrowcast signal separated from the broadcast signal, the narrowcast receiver including an attenuator and a filter, and a controller including logic to dynamically monitor and adjust the attenuator to maintain separation between the broadcast and narrowcast signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Broadband Royalty Corporation
    Inventors: Marcel F. Schemmann, Venk Mutalik, Long Zou, Zhijian Sun
  • Pay at the Table System
    Publication number: 20090055280
    Abstract: Patrons at a restaurant or bar can pay at their table using credit cards, without involving the restaurant or bar cashier and/or wait staff. Patrons are assisted using this system in dividing the bill by displaying the amount due (including tax) and allowing each patron to enter the amount they wish to pay. When the initial bill is presented, a balance due will be displayed and the indication will be provided that the bill has yet to be paid in full. As each transaction is entered, a running total will be displayed indicating the remaining balance due. When the running total reaches zero, the bill is paid in full, and an indication will be provided, such as by illuminating a green indicator light or by displaying a balance due of $0.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rodney Charles Dunsmore, Steven Lee Harrington, Mark Christan Speich
  • Remote Health Monitoring and Control
    Publication number: 20090055465
    Abstract: A health monitoring and control system for computing devices has a monitoring agent operable on a monitored device that detects status items and transmits the status items to a central system. The central system may log the status items, determine if one or more of the items are out of bounds, and alert a remote device. The remote device may be able to establish an interactive connection with the central system, determine status of the monitored device, and issue commands that are transferred to the monitoring agent on the monitored device. The monitoring agent may be able to execute the commands to adjust settings, perform operations, or other actions to address one or more status items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam DePue, Paul Fitzgerald, Kundana Palagiri
  • INTRA-DISK CODING SCHEME FOR DATA-STORAGE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20090055681
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention comprise a method for the use of an intra-disk redundancy storage protection operation for the scrubbing of a disk. The method comprises initiating a disk scrubbing operation upon each disk of a plurality of disks that are comprised within a storage disk array, issuing a disk scrubbing command for a predetermined segment of the disks that are comprised within the storage disk array at a predetermined time interval, and identifying an unrecoverable segment on a disk. The method further comprises determining if unrecoverable sectors comprised within the unrecoverable segment can be reconstructed, and reconstructing the unrecoverable sectors of the unrecoverable segment and relocating the segment to a spare storage location on the disk in the event that the segment cannot be reconstructed within its original storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ajay Dholakia, Ilias Iliadis, Robert Haas, Xiaoyu-Yu Hu, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Roman A. Pletka
  • INTAKE CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20090050094
    Abstract: An intake control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake air induction duct, a housing, a valve, and a slope member. The intake air induction duct includes a bonding surface that is bonded with an attachment surface of the internal combustion engine, and the intake air induction duct defines therein a receiving chamber that opens at the bonding surface. The housing is received in the receiving chamber, and the housing defines therein an intake passage that is communicated with an intake port of the internal combustion engine. The valve is received in the housing for opening and closing the intake passage. The slope member cancels a step provided between the intake port and the intake passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo SANO
  • PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR DRIVE DEVICE AND DC/DC CONVERTER THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20090051247
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus drives piezoelectric actuators for opening and closing injectors of respective cylinders based on energy stored in a capacitor of a DC/DC converter A current detecting resistor for controlling a boost switch to charge the capacitor is disposed at a position at which current flowing through the capacitor is not detected. Further, current detecting resistors for controlling the piezoelectric actuators are disposed at positions at which charging current from a diode to the capacitor is not detected. Thus, the charging of the capacitor can be performed even during the control for charging/discharging the piezoelectric actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya KAKEHI, Noboru NAGASE
  • Ion implantation apparatus
    Publication number: 20090050820
    Abstract: Aimed at providing an ion implantation apparatus elongated in period over which failure of a target work, due to deposition and release of ion species typically to and from the inner surface of a through-hole shaping a beam shape of ion beam, may be avoidable, reduced in frequency of exchange of an aperture component, and consequently improved in productivity, an aperture component shaping a beam shape has a taper opposed to the ion beam, in at least a part of inner surface of at least the through-hole, and has a thick thermal-sprayed film formed so as to cover the inner surface and therearound of the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Ikeda, Toshio Iida
  • Method for detecting gastric cancer by detecting VLDLR gene
    Publication number: 20090054245
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a highly stable and reproducible method for detecting gastric cancer, by finding a novel gastric cancer-related gene and detecting the inactivation of such cancer-related gene. The present invention provides a method for detecting gastric cancer, comprising detecting malignant transformation of a gastric tissue cell by detecting the inactivation of the human VLDLR gene in the gastric tissue cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    Inventors: Hisashi Takada, Issei Imoto, Johji Inazawa
  • Method for producing polarized, polarizer, polarizing plate, optical film, and image display device
    Publication number: 20090051058
    Abstract: A method for producing a polarizer of the present invention comprises: subjecting a polyvinyl alcohol film to at least a dyeing process, a crosslinking process and a stretching process; and then subjecting the polyvinyl alcohol film to a washing process with an aqueous solution containing 1 to 50% by weight of an alcohol and 0.5 to 10% by weight of an iodide compound. A polarizer produced by the production method has high transmittance and high degree of polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogomi, Minoru Miyatake
  • ACTUATOR UNIT
    Publication number: 20090051228
    Abstract: An actuator unit 100 which moves a light reflection element 32 in a predetermined optical path-switching-position includes a mover 120 to which the light reflection element 32 is fixed, and a fixed part body 110 including an E-shaped yoke 113. When the mover 120 is located at one end in its moving range, the posture of the mover 120 is specified by magnetic attraction forces in two directions orthogonal to each other which are generated between one end portion 113a yoke 113 and an orthogonal part 113c of the E-shaped, and the mover by a permanent magnet 121 and an electromagnet 118, whereby a tilt of the mover 120 can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kanbara, Takuya Shirata, Junichiro Asano, Masayuki Togawa
  • METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM TO SET JTAG INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20090045795
    Abstract: A method and apparatus determines and sets operating voltage on a JTAG interface by incrementally increasing a test voltage applied thereto. The contents of a register is monitored to detect when the contents switch (change) from a first value to a second value. The voltage occurring at the switch is doubled to establish the operating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Richard J. Wells
  • Multi-Layer Piezoelectric Device
    Publication number: 20090045702
    Abstract: To provide a multi-layer piezoelectric device having excellent durability in which the amount of displacement does not change even when the piezoelectric actuator is subjected to continuous operation over a long period of time under a high voltage and a high pressure, the multi-layer piezoelectric device comprises a stack formed by stacking piezoelectric layers and internal electrodes alternately one on another and external electrodes formed on a first side face and on a second side face of the stack, wherein one of the adjacent internal electrodes is connected to the external electrode formed on the first side face and the other internal electrode is connected to the external electrode formed on the second side face, while content of alkali metal in a range from 5 ppm to 300 ppm is contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OKAMURA, Katsushi SAKAUE, Mitsuo KONDO
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN OBJECT TO SUPPORT DATA STRUCTURES IN WORM STORAGE
    Publication number: 20090049086
    Abstract: An object storage system provides a storage object to support index structures, logs, and audit trails in WORM storage. The storage object includes a mutable object, an immutable object, or an appendable object. For each storage object, the system maintains an indication of type, such as mutable, immutable, or appendable object type. A mutable object can be arbitrarily modified, an immutable object cannot be modified, and the contents of the appendable object cannot be modified but can be appended with new data. Appended data becomes immutable. The system enables a protection level represented by the object type to be upgraded but not downgraded. Consequently, data committed to be immutable cannot be changed by changing the type of the storage object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, Xiaonan Ma
  • METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, AND APPARATUSES FOR PROVIDING REMOTE CLIENT ACCESS TO EXPORTED FILE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20090049153
    Abstract: Remote clients may access remotely exported file systems using a remote token manager that provides communication among a plurality of caching file servers. In response to a client request for file system access, a program is invoked to determine whether the request relates to a locally exported file system exported by a local caching file server or a remotely exported file system exported by a remote caching file server. If the request relates to a locally exported file system, a local token manager is invoked to obtain a token granting access permission to the locally exported file system. If the request relates to a remotely exported file system, a remote token manager is invoked to communicate with a local access routine in the remote caching file server to obtain a token granting access permission for the remotely exported file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Renata Rand McFadden, David A. Wise
  • Plating apparatus and plating method
    Publication number: 20090045069
    Abstract: A plating apparatus performs a plating process while placing a work in a pod disposed in a plating bath storing a plating solution. The pod has a pair of meshes that allow the plating solution to pass but substantially inhibit the work from passing. The plating apparatus is provided with a solution flowing mechanism for flowing the plating solution out of the pod through one of the pair of meshes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kou Onodera, Hiroshi Shindo, Takashi Sakurai
  • Apparatus and Method for Tagging Items
    Publication number: 20090049413
    Abstract: A method including presenting an image on a display of a device, automatically providing a tag association menu on the display, the tag association menu being provided with the image, selecting a tag from the tag association menu, the selected tag to be associated with the image and automatically closing the tag association menu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Lehtovirta, Sanna Maarit Belitz, Jorma Tapio Suutarinen
  • Plasma Processing Apparatus
    Publication number: 20090044910
    Abstract: This application discloses a practical plasma processing apparatus capable of plasma confinement without plasma-density non-uniformity and electric power loss. The apparatus comprises a plasma shield that surrounds a plasma generation region to prevent plasma from diffusing. The shield has at least one opening. The apparatus comprises a diffusion prevention electrode for preventing the plasma from diffusing through the opening of the plasma shield. The surface of the plasma shield exposed to the plasma is made of insulator. The diffusion prevention electrode is located where electrons diffusing toward the opening or having diffused through the opening from the plasma flow into itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki OSADA, Yoshikazu NOZAKI
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DRILLING SYSTEM FOR DRILLING A BOREHOLE IN AN EARTH FORMATION
    Publication number: 20090044977
    Abstract: This disclosure relates in general to a method and system for controlling a drilling system for drilling a borehole in an earth formation. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for controlling dynamic interactions between the drilling system for drilling the borehole and an inner surface of the borehole being drilled to steer the drilling system to directionally drill the borehole. In another embodiment of the present invention, data regarding the functioning of the drilling system as it drills the borehole may be sensed and interactions between the drilling system for drilling the borehole and an inner surface of the borehole may be controlled in response to the sensed data to control the drilling system as the borehole is being drilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ashley Johnson, Walter David Aldred, Geoffrey Charles Downton, Riadh Boualleg, Kjell Haugvaldstad, Michael Sheppard
  • Clutch Damper Spring Pocket Improvement
    Publication number: 20090045025
    Abstract: A torsional damper with a hub assembly and a disc assembly has coil springs disposed therebetween. The coil springs are disposed in pockets defined in part by apertures in opposed cover plates. The apertures have sharply angled end portions providing deflection relief near the ends of the coil springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Michael L. Bassett