Patents Assigned to M
  • Patent number: 6990359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and user equipment of processing received data at a user equipment connected to a communications network. The processing comprises steps of receiving radio frames in a receiver of the user equipment, identifying the transport block sizes of the radio frame in the user equipment, and determining whether the received radio frame includes transport blocks that are not directed to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Stefan Wager
  • Patent number: 6988851
    Abstract: A vibratory concrete screed includes a vibration isolation system that minimizes the transmission of vibrations to the operator under normal operating conditions, but becomes more rigid during screed control forces applied to the blade through the isolation system when the operator applies greater forces to the operator handle. The system includes low durometer elastomer vibration isolators isolating the operator handle from the vibration exciter and screed blade in a manner that limits vertical compressive movement of the isolators, yet permits substantially greater horizontal shear movement to effectively isolate the operator from vibration. The isolator mounting arrangement also includes retainers that engage the isolator to limit the amplitude of horizontal shear movement when the operator applies a greater control force to the operator handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: M-B-W Inc.
    Inventor: Paul M. Sina
  • Patent number: 6989178
    Abstract: The present invention discloses folded corrugated material for producing segments or strips for use as Easter grass, packing material and the like or for use as flower pot covers, floral wrappings and ribbon materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeler, not individually but solely as Trustees of The Family Trust U/T/A dated Dec. 8, 1995
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Patent number: 6989142
    Abstract: An abrasive precipitated calcium carbonate is provided that provides excellent cleaning properties without being excessively abrasive or damaging to gums or tooth surfaces. The abrasive, precipitated calcium carbonate has a primary particle size of about 1 ?m to about 4 ?m, and an aggregate size of about 3 ?m to about 10 ?m. Also disclosed is a method for forming calcium carbonate comprising the steps of: providing a reaction medium; introducing carbon dioxide and the calcium hydroxide slurry simultaneously into a reaction medium to form calcium carbonate while maintaining constant pH during calcium carbonate precipitation; and optionally drying the calcium carbonate slurry to form a dried calcium carbonate product. Also disclosed is a dentifrice containing the aforementioned abrasive, precipitated calcium, and one or more ingredients selected from the group consisting of humectants, thickening agents, binders, gums, stabilizing agents, antibacterial agents, fluorides, sweeteners, and surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: J. M. Huber Corporation
    Inventors: Sung-Tsuen Liu, Michel J. Martin, William C. Fultz, Patrick D. McGill
  • Publication number: 20060012443
    Abstract: An oscillator circuit for a sensor, with a tuned circuit (2) and an operational amplifier (3), the electrical oscillation of the tuned circuit (2) is capable of being tapped between a first terminal (4) and a second terminal (5) of the tuned circuit (2), and the first terminal (4) of the tuned circuit (2) being connected to the noninverting input of the operational amplifier (3) and the output (6) of the operational amplifier (3) is fed back to the noninverting input of the operational amplifier. The oscillator circuit is designed to improve the dynamic behavior of the oscillator circuit by the second terminal (5) of the tuned circuit (2)—at least in terms of AC voltage—being directly connected to the inverting input of the operational amplifier (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: i f m electronic gmbh
    Inventors: Melnrad Sauter, Jean-Luc Lamarche
  • Publication number: 20060011053
    Abstract: A method for producing a large-caliber, high-explosive projectile (1, 1?), and a projectile formed according the method, having a projectile casing (2, 2?) that surrounds a chamber (6, 6?) filled with an explosive charge (9, 9?), and that has a mouth (5, 5?) at its tip that can be sealed, and through which the explosive charge (9, 9?) is inserted into the chamber (6, 6?) of the high-explosive projectile (1, 1?). The explosive charge (9, 9?) is disposed in a plastic casing (8), comprised of an elastic material, inside the chamber of the high-explosive projectile (1, 1?). Additional tensioning means (11, 11?, 17, 17?) are provided to compensate for the varying volume of the explosive charge (9, 9?) relative to the projectile casing (2, 2?) if the temperature fluctuates dramatically and maintain the explosive charge (9, 9?) under a pre-stress, particularly when using a plastic bound explosive charge (9, 9?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: Rheinmetall W & M GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst-Wilhelm Altenau
  • Publication number: 20060012432
    Abstract: A receiver circuit including a differential amplifier and at least one common mode feedback circuit coupled to the differential amplifier for providing a control current to the differential amplifier for regulating a common mode voltage of the differential amplifier. The receiver circuit provides integration and sampling on an input signal, and may be used as a portion of a sensor circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: M/A-COM, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Point, Robert Gresham
  • Publication number: 20060010818
    Abstract: A method of connecting structural components having a relatively low thickness, the method including pre-applying, at an off-site location, one of an adhesive and a substance which activates an adhesive to at least one of at least one of the sides of the groove of one of the structural components and at least one of the sides of the tongue of another of the structural components, and connecting, at a site different from the off-site location, the structural components together by causing the tongue to be inserted into the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: M. KAINDL.
    Inventor: Franz Knauseder
  • Patent number: 6986235
    Abstract: A band applicator for applying a band about a sheet of material disposed about a pot to provide a decorative cover for the pot. The band applicator includes a pot frame having a pot opening and a band holder configured to releasably hold a plurality of bands. The sheet of material is extended about the outer peripheral surface of the pot, and the pot with the sheet of material disposed thereabout is disposed in a pot receiving space in the pot frame. The pot frame holds the sheet of material positioned about the pot. A band is removed from the band holder and disposed about the sheet of material and pot for cooperating to hold the sheet of material positioned about the pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeter, not individually but solely as Trustees of The Family Trust U/T/A dated December 8, 1995
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter, William F. Straeter
  • Patent number: 6986635
    Abstract: A load change safety system in which a sheet stacker having a stacking deck formed with a discharge end discharges sheet material onto and builds a sheet stack on a conveying sheet stack removal system formed with a receiving means. A variable pinch point gap is formed by relative motion between the discharge end of the stacking deck and the receiving means of the conveying sheet material removal system. The safety system includes redundant means selectively preventing a decrease in the variable pinch point gap. The redundant means of the safety system preferably includes an electro-optical light guard means operably connected to the redundant means with one or more redirections of light beams to create a light guard perimeter guarding portions of the stacker and sheet removal system to guard against access to the pinch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Geo. M. Martin Company
    Inventors: Daniel J. Talken, Charles D. Rizzuti
  • Patent number: 6988175
    Abstract: A method for managing page-based data storage media such as flash media, a system that uses that method, and a computer-readable storage medium bearing code for implementing the method. New data are written to the storage medium in a manner that precludes corruption of old data if the writing of the new data is interrupted. Specifically, risk zones are defined, by identifying, for each page, the other pages whose data are put at risk of corruption if writing to the page is interrupted. A page, that otherwise would be the target of a write operation, is not written if any of the pages in its risk zone contain data that could be corrupted if the write operation is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.
    Inventor: Menahem Lasser
  • Patent number: 6987419
    Abstract: A switch circuit including a first differential amplifier pair providing a portion of an isolation channel, a second differential amplifier pair providing a portion of a transmit channel, and a third differential amplifier pair providing a control bias for selecting either the transmit channel or the isolation channel. The switch circuit provides 35 dB isolation between input and output over a 15 GHz-26 GHz range, yet is only 500 ?m by 250 ?m in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: M/A-Com, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ian Gresham
  • Patent number: 6987488
    Abstract: An apparatus for introducing electromagnetic perturbation into a target device includes a piezoelectric transducer configured to deflect in response to an applied voltage and a perturber configured to deflect in response to deflection of the piezoelectric transducer. The deflection of the perturber causes electromagnetic perturbation, and in some cases a phase shift, in the target device. The electromagnetic perturbation may also be used to tune microwave devices such as filters, resonators, and oscillators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, RST Scientific Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Chang, Tae-Yeoul Yun, Raghbir S. Tahim
  • Patent number: 6986248
    Abstract: A method and a device for dosing a liquid reducing agent for denoxing the exhaust gases of a diesel engine, wherein the reducing agent is delivered to the exhaust gas system of the diesel engine via a dosing valve. The reducing agent is cooled for the elimination of gas bubbles entrained in the reducing agent present at the input side of the dosing valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: PURēM Abgassysteme
    Inventor: Werner Overhoff
  • Patent number: 6988197
    Abstract: In a communication system, an authentication ciphering offset (ACO) is generated as a function of one or more parameters, wherein at least one of the one or more parameters is derived from earlier-computed values of the ACO. This enables each device to avoid generating an ACO value that is out of synchronization with a counterpart ACO value generated in another communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Joakim Persson, Bernard Smeets, Tobias Melin
  • Patent number: 6986223
    Abstract: A method of forming a decorative cover, a sleeve or a preformed pot cover for a floral grouping or flower pot from a sheet of material having a printed pattern thereon wherein the printed pattern contains shaded and highlighted areas which provide the printed pattern with a visual perception of depth and thus a three-dimensional appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeter, not individually but solely as Trustees of The Family Trust U/T/A dated December 8, 1995
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Publication number: 20060009674
    Abstract: Active tissue augmenting agents, compositions and methods for use are disclosed. In a typical embodiment, the active augmenting agents of the invention can be used to form an artificial sphincter around a lumen of a human or animal body. In one embodiment, the active augmenting agent comprises magnitizable particles which can provide occlusion of a lumen, such as the urethral lumen, by circumferential attraction of the injected material toward the center of the lumen by the inherent magnetic flux field created from the magnetic dipoles of the magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: EV & M
    Inventor: Paul Miller
  • Patent number: 6986030
    Abstract: The present invention uses a portable memory device to directly or wirelessly interact with one or more host computing devices to provide a customized configuration for one or more aspects associated with a computing session. In particular, software on the portable device will automatically execute on the host computing device after the host computing device recognizes the presence of the portable device. The software provides instructions for the host computing device to launch a select program on the host computing device and provide a customized configuration for the program. The customized configuration is based on information stored on the portable device. As such, the portable device may automatically set preferred interface or program configurations personalized to the user. For example, the interface settings for a desktop, productivity, or browser application may be tailored as defined by information stored on the portable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimon Shmueli, Alex Lang, Jean Billman
  • Patent number: 6983756
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus comprises a treatment vessel, a substrate holder for rotating the substrate in a horizontal plane in the treatment vessel, a nozzle unit arranged in an upper part of the treatment vessel such that a liquid is downwardly fed, a feed line for feeding the liquid to the nozzle unit, and a chamber enclosing therein the apparatus in its entirety. The nozzle unit is constructed in a form of a bar such that as viewed in plan, the liquid ejected from the nozzle unit reaches the substrate with an area range having a length not smaller than a diameter of the substrate and a width smaller than the diameter of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: m - FSI Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousaku Matsuno, Masao Iga
  • Patent number: 6985745
    Abstract: A method and a Radio Signature Positioning Determining Entity (RS-PDE) are provided for maintaining the reliability of a location database of the RS-PDE. A Data Transfer Scheduler (DTS) of the RS-PDE receives new location data comprising signal strength measurements records, and the new location data is correlated by a Data Correlation Device (DCD) with existing location data of the location database. The correlated location data is uploaded by a Data Uploader (DU) into the location database. A Data Performance Monitor (DPM) detects if the RS-PDE provides better positioning results using that correlated data, and if so, the RS-PDE then uses the correlated data for mobile station positioning. The location data update cycle may be triggered by a configurable timer defining an update periodicity, or by a detection of insufficient positioning accuracy of the RS-PDE using the existing location data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Geoffrey Quaid