Patents Examined by Anthony Dinkins
  • Patent number: 6940706
    Abstract: It is acknowledged that an electric double layer capacitor is markedly superior in power density and cycle characteristics to a secondary battery. However, a higher energy density is required to apply it to a power supply of hybrid vehicle, electric vehicle or the like. The present inventors have found that a carbonaceous material containing copper or a compound of copper exhibits excellent characteristics as an electrode material for capacitor and can realize a capacitor having a large capacity. In the electrode material and the capacitor, copper or a compound of copper exists in the amount of 0.8 to 30 parts by weight calculated on the metal basis based on 100 parts by weight of the carbonaceous material, particularly preferably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Kanebo Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusaku Sakata, Akinori Muto, Norimasa Yamada, Azhar Uddin, Masaru Takei, Kenji Kojima, Satoshi Ibaraki, Chisato Marumo
  • Patent number: 6940019
    Abstract: To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikeda, Shoichiro Komiya, Takayuki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6936765
    Abstract: An insert bridges a junction box to provide a continuous path between consecutive pipes of an electrical wiring guideway. The insert includes a generally tubular body having a first end and a second end. The insert has a length that is sized to bridge a gap across the junction box and a diameter that is sized for sliding into a pipe of the electrical wiring guideway. A first flange surrounds the generally tubular body and is spaced from the first end thereof. A second flange surrounds the generally tubular body and is spaced from the second end thereof. The flanges abut opposing inner walls of the junction box to ensure that the insert is not lost into a pipe. A slit extends along the length of the insert to allow for removal of the insert once the electrical wiring has been laid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Jay Horner
  • Patent number: 6934144
    Abstract: To provide a capacitor capable of utilizing carbon nanotube characteristics effectively to obtain excellent electric or mechanical characteristics, and a method of manufacturing the same. The capacitor is characterized by including two opposing electrodes, at least one of the two electrodes being formed from a coating film of a carbon nanotube structure in which plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded constitute a mesh structure by cross-linking the functional groups through chemical bonding. The method of manufacturing a capacitor includes: a coating step for coating a surface of a base body with a solution that contains plural carbon nanotubes with functional groups bonded; and a cross-linking step for forming a carbon nanotube structure layer in which the functional groups are chemically bonded to one another, thereby causing the carbon nanotubes to cross-link to one another and build a mesh structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigeki Ooma, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Chikara Manabe, Masaki Hirakata, Kentaro Kishi, Taishi Shigematsu, Miho Watanabe, Takashi Isozaki, Shinsuke Okada, Kazunori Anazawa
  • Patent number: 6934146
    Abstract: A niobium powder for a capacitor having a tapping density of 0.5 to 2.5 g/ml, and average particle size of 10 to 1000 ?mum, angle of repose form 10° to 60°, the BET specific surface area from 0.5 to 40 m2/g and a plurity of pore diameter peak tops in the pore distribution, and a producing method therof; (2) a niobium sintered body, which is obtained by sintering the above niobium powder and, having a plurality of pore diameter peak tops in a range of 0.01 ?mum to 500 ?mum, preferably, the peak tops of two peaks among the plurality of pore diameter peak tops having a highest relative intensity are present in the range of 0.2 to 0.7 ?mum and in the range of 0.7 to 3 ?mum, respectively, and a producing method thereof; (3) a capacitor using the above sintered body and a producing method thereof, and (4) an electronic circuit and electronic device using the above capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Omori, Kazumi Naito, Toshiya Kawasaki, Kouichi Wada
  • Patent number: 6930251
    Abstract: A base for an electrical outlet. The electrical outlet includes a mounting screw aperture disposed along a longitudinal axis for receiving a mounting screw having a mounting screw head to mount the electrical outlet to a box. The mounting screw head has a mounting screw head diameter. The electrical outlet also has at least one socket face for receiving an electrical plug. The base includes a substantially planar backing member, the backing member including at least one aperture for receiving the at least one socket face. The base also includes a keyhole slot disposed in the backing member and having first and second keyhole slot apertures. The first keyhole slot aperture is larger than the mounting screw head diameter. The second keyhole slot aperture is smaller than the mounting screw head diameter and is disposed in the backing member at a location on the longitudinal axis and aligned with the mounting screw aperture when the base is mounted to the electrical outlet using the mounting screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: TayMac Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Shotey, Edgar W. Maltby
  • Patent number: 6930875
    Abstract: A multi-layered unit according to the present invention includes a support substrate formed of a material which has conductivity and on which a dielectric material containing a bismuth layer structured compound can be epitaxially grown, at least the surface thereof being oriented in the [001] direction, and a dielectric layer formed by epitaxially growing a dielectric material containing a bismuth layer structured compound on the support substrate and formed of a dielectric material containing a bismuth layer structured compound oriented in the [001] direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Yukio Sakashita
  • Patent number: 6930874
    Abstract: A capacitor including an expandable part fabricated on a capacitor housing is enclosed. The expandable part is expandable by a fault that occurs within the capacitor housing, thereby extending the capacitor housing to contact with an external interrupter. The external interrupter includes an external electrode and an external sensing circuit. The external sensing circuit detects a contact between the capacitor housing and the external electrode and sends a signal to disconnect the capacitor from an apparatus circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Parallax Power Components, LLC
    Inventors: Edward M. Lobo, Francis Mello
  • Patent number: 6924965
    Abstract: An electromagnetically operated device has an electromagnet including a magnetic guide having a movable armature and at least one air gap, a magnetizing coil provided on the magnetic guide, the magnetic guide having at least a part formed as an insert of a magnetically hard material, the magnetic guide having an immovable part formed as a cylinder, the movable armature being provided with a cover of the cylinder, the magnetizing coil being located inside the cylinder coaxially to the latter, a rod extending along an axis of the cylinder, located in an inner hollow of the cylinder, and having a part of composed of a electromagnetically soft material, the armature being formed so as to close the magnetic guide with formation of a three dimensional closed structure including the cylinder, the cover, the rod with a possibility of providing a holding force which is equal to a pulling force formed by a winding of the magnetizing coil during a supply of a short-term current pulse to the winding of the magnetizing co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Magnasource, LLC
    Inventor: Nikolai Babich
  • Patent number: 6924972
    Abstract: A monolithic ceramic component includes a coil-including region formed by stacking ceramic green sheets for defining inner layers having a porosity of about 30% to about 80%, and outer layer regions formed by stacking ceramic green sheets for defining outer layers have a porosity of about 10% or less. Outer electrodes are provided on the right end surface and the left end surface of a sintered ceramic laminate. That is, the outer electrodes are provided on the main surfaces of outermost ceramic sheets for outer layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoo Takazawa
  • Patent number: 6924969
    Abstract: A storage capacitor plate for a semiconductor assembly having a substantially continuous porous conductive storage plate comprising silicon nanocrystals residing along a surface of a conductive material and along a surface of a coplanar insulative material adjacent the conductive material, a capacitor cell dielectric overlying the silicon nanocrystals and an overlying conductive top plate. The conductive storage plate is formed by a semiconductor fabrication method comprising forming silicon nanocrystals on a surface of a conductive material and on a surface of an insulative material adjacent the conductive material, wherein silicon nanocrystals contain conductive impurities and are adjoined to form a substantially continuous porous conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher W. Hill
  • Patent number: 6924432
    Abstract: A firewall damper fitting for data transmission lines having a damper body and a vertically sliding cover plate. The cover plate and the damper body having protruding lip portions which allow removable access to data lines while providing an effective damper which retards heat and fire through a sleeve without damaging the data transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Inventor: Thomas V. Connors
  • Patent number: 6924967
    Abstract: An interposer connector for connecting an interdigitated capacitor to a substrate having a first track to be electrically connected to first capacitor terminals and an opposed second track to be electrically connected to second capacitor terminals. The interposer connector supports the interdigitated capacitor and has a first electrical conductor electrically connectable to the first track and the first capacitor terminals and a second electrical conductor electrically connectable to the second track substrate and the second capacitor terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Inventor: Alan Devoe
  • Patent number: 6920033
    Abstract: The invention relates to a variable capacitor which, due to its particular arrangement of electrodes, enables a significantly higher current flow than generally known constructions having the same or a similar structural shape, said capacitor also has an increased life expectancy and is compatible with existing capacitors in terms of connection. Such variable capacitors can be used in high frequency generators, in matchboxes and in interface networks for industrial high frequency applications, as regulatable filters in high frequency power electronics and in the power part of emission installations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Comet AG
    Inventors: Lothar Jahreiss, Bernhard Hug, Walter Bigler, Michael Hamberger
  • Patent number: 6920035
    Abstract: A thin-type surface-mount capacitor is a solid electrolytic capacitor. The capacitor includes a capacitor element having an anode body in the form of a plate-like or foil-like valve-action metal that is area-increased, and a conductive functional polymer film used as a solid electrolyte. The capacitor further includes thermal adhesive insulating resin impregnated tapes that are stuck to the capacitor element on upper and lower sides thereof, and an element reinforcing metal plate and a solderable cathode terminal metal plate 67 that are stuck to the tapes, respectively. The capacitor is finally formed by applying a curing treatment under high temperature and pressure. Each of the metal plates is applied with a stepping process that provides a difference in level corresponding to a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignees: Nec Tokin Corporation, Nec Tokin Toyama, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nagasawa, Akihiro Kawai, Yuichi Maruko
  • Patent number: 6918177
    Abstract: A device to be detachably attached to a mechanical substructure includes rails on opposed sides joined at the front by a cross member. A pair of guides mounted on the substructure slidably receives and retains the rails upon attachment of the device. An alignment pin extending from a rail mates with a hole in one of the guides to insure alignment of an electrical connector of the device with an electrical connector mounted on the substructure. The cross member includes screws for securing the cross member to the substructure. A spring extending from a rail makes electrical contact with an adjacent guide and an electrostatic discharge contact plate to discharge any existing static charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Adtron Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Haager, Kevin L. Kilzer, Daniel P. Fogelson, Ronald E. Tupa
  • Patent number: 6917513
    Abstract: The non reducible dielectric ceramic composition comprising a main component of (Ba1-xCax)m(Ti1-yZry)O3, subcomponents of MgO, Re2O3, MO, MnO and V2O5 where Re is one or more elements selected from the group of Y, Dy and Ho and M is one or two elements selected from the group of Ba and Ca, and a sintering aid of SiO2, wherein when the composition is represented by the formula 100(Ba1-xCax)m(Ti1-yZry)O3+bMgO+cRe2O3+dMO+eMnO+fV2O5+gSiO2, the ratio of the components satisfies the conditions of 0.005?x?0.15, 0.995?m?1.03, 0.0005?y?0.005, 0.1?b?3.0, 0.1?c?3.0, 0.05?d?2.0, 0.05?e?50.3, 0.0.?f?0.1, and 0.2?g?3.0 based on the molar ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Sup Kim, Chan Kong Kim, Kang Heon Hur, Jong Han Kim
  • Patent number: 6917511
    Abstract: Methods for the production of ceramic chip capacitors include the deposition of at least two layers of electrical conductor and at least one layer of a dielectric between electrical conducting layers. The compositions in the dielectric layer are deposited from a flow in which flowing reactants react to form particles in a reaction driven by light at a light reaction zone. In some embodiments, a plurality of dielectric layers is deposited. Suitable dielectric materials include barium titanate. A collection of barium titanate particles can be formed in the coating process having an average diameter less than about 90 nanometers. Thus, ceramic chip capacitors can be formed with barium titanate particles having an average diameter less than about 90 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: NeoPhotonics Corporation
    Inventor: Michael A. Bryan
  • Patent number: 6912117
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor having at least two capacitor elements using a valve action metal, such as tantalum or niobium, and laminated in a direction perpendicular to a mounting surface of a substrate. The capacitor elements have a width parallel to the mounting surface of the substrate greater than a thickness perpendicular to the mounting surface of the substrate, and an anode terminal is connected with anode leads led out to at least one side of an anode body made of the valve action metal generally in parallel to the mounting surface of the substrate. A cathode layer on a dielectric oxide film of the anode body is connected to a cathode terminal and is coated with exterior coating resin with a part of the anode terminal and a part of the cathode terminal exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignees: NEC TOKIN Corporation, NEC TOKIN Toyama, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Arai, Takahiro Kayamori
  • Patent number: 6911602
    Abstract: A connecting terminal, in particular a terminal strip, has a busbar and at least one spring terminal element. The spring terminal element is formed separately from the busbar, it is electrically conductively connected to it, and it is as thin as possible, with minimum use of material. The spring element has a spring limb and a contact limb opposite the spring limb, for connecting an electrical conductor which has been inserted between these limbs and rests against the contact limb. The spring limb and the contact limb are both supported against the busbar for absorbing spring forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Inventor: Gerd Conrad