Patents Assigned to L
  • Publication number: 20120168624
    Abstract: A measurement system including a reference resistive sensor traversed by a reference current, with a reference arm having a reference resistance and being traversed by the reference current in order to produce a reference voltage between its ends, at least one measurement resistive sensor traversed by a measurement current that depends on a measurement taken by the measurement resistive sensor, a measurement mirror arm traversed by a current, and a device for measuring the difference between the measurement current and the current traversing the measurement mirror arm. The resistance of the measurement mirror arm of each measurement resistive sensor is equal to the reference resistance and the measurement system further includes a device for applying, to each measurement mirror arm, the reference voltage. The device for applying the reference voltage being designed to be isolated to a current of the measurement mirror arm when the reference voltage is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Bertrand DUPONT, Michael TCHAGASPANIAN
  • Publication number: 20120168131
    Abstract: A method for heat exchange by boiling a polar liquid on a surface including at least one low-wetting zone, including: a) generating appearance of nuclei of vapor bubbles on the low-wetting zone, and causing the nuclei to grow; and b) making the surface wetting by at least one electro-wetting system, to favor detachment of the gas bubbles formed in this manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Jerome Gavillet, Hai Trieu Phan
  • Publication number: 20120167622
    Abstract: In a method for producing oxygen through the distillation of air supplied by air at atmospheric pressure so as to produce a first and second compressed air flow, and through a first purification unit (5) and a second purification unit (7), the first and second compressed air flows at different pressures: the first compressed air flow is sent from a first outlet of the compression means to the first purifying unit at the first pressure; the first purified air flow is sent to a column of the column system (15); the second purified air flow is sent, in an at least partially condensed form, from the second purifying unit to the column system; an oxygen-rich liquid is bled off the column system; said oxygen-rich liquid is vaporized through heat exchange with at least the second purified air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: L'AIR LIQUIDE SOCIETE ANONYME POUR L'ETUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCEDES GEORGES CLAUDE
    Inventors: Marie Cognard, Richard Dubettier-Grenier
  • Publication number: 20120171142
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising at least one oil-dispersible micronized wax which, if desired, can be processed at room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: L'Oréal S.A.
    Inventors: Hy Si BUI, Anita Chon Tong, Susan Halpern, Mohamed Kanji, Fatima Ramadan, Yoriko Kawaratani, Nishith Patel, Ram Hariharan
  • Publication number: 20120173772
    Abstract: The invention relates to an access controller which comprises a module (24) for managing writing in a circular buffer (16), means (38) for storing a first read pointer (PL) and a second write pointer (PE), a module (30) for managing reading in the circular buffer (16), means (24, 30, 40) for blocking reading, respectively writing, means (38) for storing a read or write work pointer (PT) which is different from the first and second pointers (PL; PE), and means (24, 30, 40) for updating the wo: pointer (PT) according to a predetermined update logic. The predetermined update logic comprises forward or backward movements of the work pointer (PT) inside the circular buffer (16), and the controller includes means for blocking the read or write work pointer if the read work pointer (PT) points outside a memory space reserved for reading or, respectively, if the write work pointer (PT) points outside a free memory space for writing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Yves Durand, Christian Bernard
  • Publication number: 20120172680
    Abstract: A method and device for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, such as cardiac, metabolic, or pulmonary disease involving chemoreceptor hyperactivity and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: G & L CONSULTING, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin
  • Publication number: 20120170858
    Abstract: An encoding method for encoding of images and corresponding decoding method is disclosed, as well as an encoder and a decoder. The encoding method comprises creating, in an encoder, a residual block from an original block and a prediction block which is an approximation of the original block, wherein the created residual block comprises residual block elements. The en-coding method further comprises re-ordering, in the encoder, the residual block elements within the residual block; and applying, in the encoder, a transform to the re-ordered residual block. By re-ordering the residual block elements prior to applying a transform, an improved efficiency of the encoding may be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kenneth Andersson, Andrey Norkin, Clinton Priddle, Zhuangfei Wu
  • Publication number: 20120171139
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an anhydrous composition which is long wearing and transfer resistant, while at the same time providing superior comfort, feel and cushioning, the composition containing: (a) at least one polypropylsilsesquioxane wax substituted with alkyl units having at least 30 carbons; (b) at least one siloxysilicate resin; (c) at least one polyorganosiloxane-containing polymer; (d) at least one volatile solvent; (e) optionally, at least one non-volatile solvent; and (f) at least one colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Kimberly Bradshaw, Hy Si Bui
  • Publication number: 20120169837
    Abstract: A communication device (12), computer readable medium and method for synchronizing video data with audio data received by a communication device, the video data including a plurality of segments of video data and the audio data including a plurality of segments of audio data. The method includes receiving a first segment of audio data at the communication device (12); receiving a first segment of video data at the communication device, at the same time or later in time than the first segment of audio data, the first segment of video data being logically related to the first segment of audio data; and applying a synchronization mechanism between the first segment of audio data and the first segment of video data based on a predetermined indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Håkan Olofsson, Fredrik Gustav Aberg, Arto Juhani Mahkonen
  • Publication number: 20120171629
    Abstract: A burner has a fuel/oxidant nozzles and a pair of dynamical lances spaced on either side thereof that inject a jet of fuel and primary oxidant along a fuel injection axis, and jets of secondary oxidant, respectively. Jets of actuating fluid impinge against the jets of secondary oxidant to fluidically angle the jets of secondary oxidant away from the fuel injection axis. The action of the angling away together with staging of the oxidant between primary and secondary oxidant injections allows achievement of distributed combustion conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: American Air Liquide, Inc., Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC, L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L 'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Taekyu KANG, Vivek GAUTAM, Rajeev S. PRABHAKAR, Benoit GRAND, Bertrand LEROUX, Magnus MORTBERG, Nicolas Docquier
  • Publication number: 20120170529
    Abstract: The present invention relates a voice communication method between a plurality of users sharing the same transmission band. The resource is accessed by time division under the supervision of a control node. During a polling step, any user wishing to speak transmits (210) a request to the control node. The control node allocates (220) transmission frames to the requesting users or merely to some of these users. Users allocated a transmission frame can then transmit (230) a voice packet to the respectively allocated frames thereof. The transmission frames are interleaved temporally so as to give the impression of full-duplex communication during voice reproduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Giorgio CORBELLINI, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
  • Patent number: 8210079
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding and slitting soft goods has multiple slitting systems with respective slitting blades mounted on a cross rail. A slitting blade positioning system is movable parallel with the cross rail and operable to move slitting systems along the cross rail. A material feed motor is connected to a feed roller and operable to move the soft goods past the slitting system. A control is first operable to cause the slitting blade positioning system to move identified slitting systems to desired positions on the cross rail. Thereafter, the control operates a drive shaft motor to rotate slitting blades mounted on the drive shaft and the material feed motor, thereby moving the soft goods past the slitting blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventors: Terrance L. Myers, Jeff Kaetterhenry, Ivan Habek, Stjepan Vadlja
  • Patent number: 8211315
    Abstract: A microsystem for separating fluids not miscible with each other and contained in a mixture. The microsystem comprises at least one detection means intended to inspect at least one area of the mixture and to detect the presence of at least one of the fluids in this area. The microsystem further comprises at least one controlled means for opening or closing a passage. The microsystem further comprises at least one control means for the opening or the closing of a passage as a function of the nature of the fluid detected in the area inspected by the detection means, in such a way that the fluid whose presence has been detected flows or not through the passage. The detection means comprise a plurality of sensors arranged substantially around the controlled means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Prulhiere, Virginie Saavedra
  • Patent number: 8212543
    Abstract: Methods for selecting between the two modes (states) of operation, continuous conduction and discontinuous conduction, are disclosed. Systems that are capable of selecting the operating mode and operating in the continuous conduction mode or the discontinuous conduction mode are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: L&L Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Stewart Kenly, Paul W. Latham, II
  • Patent number: 8213941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cellular communications network and in particular to the problem of identifying cells for neighbor lists, or handover candidates when the cells are identified by a limited number of non-unique identities. The present invention includes a method for a radio base station, wherein the base station receives reports from one or more terminals in neighbor cells quality and non-unique identities. The match is sought in a neighbor cell list non-unique identity with a unique cell identity. If the match cannot be made without ambiguity, the base station causes the terminal to detect the unique cell identity. If the reason for the ambiguity is the particular cell is not included in the neighbor cell list it is included when its unique identity has been established. The uniquely identified cell is used if it is determined to perform a handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Johan Moe, Harald Kallin
  • Patent number: 8213944
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for a mobile communications, a mobile communication device (1), a node (N1, N2) in a mobile communications network (RAN, CN). The method comprises the step of sending a service request (307) from a mobile communication device (1) to a mobile communications network (RAN, CN), and in the method, the following steps are carried out before sending the service request (307): detecting an activity (301) related to the mobile communication device (1), and performing (304), in response to the detection (301) of the activity, at least one measurement of at least one candidate for serving a communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Tomas Hedberg
  • Patent number: 8211415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for making up and/or caring for keratin materials, the composition having an aqueous continuous phase and comprising at least one aqueous dispersion of particles of a polymer other than a copolymer obtained by condensation of diethylene glycol, cyclohexanedimethanol, isophthalic acid and sulfoisophthalic acid, at least one wax, at least one polyelectrolyte and at least one salt, the polymer being present in a solids content of greater than or equal to 5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Karl Pays, Yohann Bichon, Sandrine Olivier-Mabilais
  • Patent number: 8214846
    Abstract: One or more computer-readable media that enable a method of recording object configurations at and after an incident occurs in the object. The present invention captures object configurations surrounding an incident that allows changes to be made in response to the incident to be analyzed. The present invention also may generate an incident classification based on a comparison of the configuration when the incident occurs and after it is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L. P.
    Inventors: Mark Leonard, Brian John Washburn, Kailash Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 8210763
    Abstract: An applicator for applying a product to keratinous material, may include a rod and an application member fixed to one end of the rod. The application member may include a core extending from the rod and being fixed relative to the rod. The application member also may include an outer casing including a fixation zone and an application zone. The outer casing may define an inner cavity in which the core is located, and the outer casing may be fixed to one end of the rod at the fixation zone. The outer casing may be free relative to the core, at least over part of the application zone. In addition, the fixation zone of the outer casing may be fixed to the rod and to the core between portions of the rod and the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Louis H. Gueret
  • Patent number: 8210505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a corrugated criss-crossing packing structure for installations that transfer material and/or heat between a gas phase and a liquid phase, comprising a first surface (10), called the primary surface, having a number of parallel channels (11). According to the invention, this structure has a second surface (20), called the secondary surface, comprised of a number of secondary packing elements (21, 31), each secondary packing element being placed inside a channel (11) of said primary surface (10) and being formed separately from the first surface. The invention is for use in cryogenic distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Thonnelier