Patents by Inventor Roland

Roland has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Cover device and method for electrical connector
    Patent number: 7150638
    Abstract: A detachable device for covering an end of an electrical connector, comprising a non-conductive cover, sealingly attachable, and completely covering the mating end of the connector. An external end of the cover is generally planar with electrically conductive pads corresponding to the conductive terminals of the connector, and electrically connecting the pads to the terminals. The electrically conductive pads are arranged in a pattern, oriented to provide a single line-of-sight for machine recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl E. Fonville, Roland C. Hawkins
  • Apparatus for positioning a roll in an inking or damping unit of a rotary press
    Patent number: 7150226
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for positioning a roll in an inking or damping unit of a rotary press with respect to at least one adjacent roll. The axle of the first roll is mounted in at least one bearing arrangement that is movable with respect to a side wall of the printing unit, and means are provided for determining the position and the pressing forces of the first roll against the adjacent roll. The position and pressing force information is fed to a control device, by means of which the position and the pressing pressure of the first roll can be controlled by combined travel and force regulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Roland Hirt, Johann Königer
  • Methods for enhancing graft survival by modulating heme oxygenase activity
    Patent number: 7151090
    Abstract: Methods are provided wherein the survival of an organ transplant is enhanced by introducing into cells of the transplant a nucleic acid molecule that modulates heme oxygenase-I activity therein. Nucleic acid molecules that modulate heme oxygenase-I activity and therefore find use in the described methods include, for example, molecules that encode a polypeptide that itself exhibits heme oxygenase-I activity or antisense oligonucleotides that act to inhibit heme oxygenase-I activity in a cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Sangstat Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Roland Buelow, Jacky Woo, Suhasini Iyer
  • Transponder configuration, tire including a transponder, and method of producing a tire having a transponder
    Patent number: 7151495
    Abstract: A transponder to be fitted in or on a surface of an article which is substantially formed of a rubber product, in particular a transponder to be fitted in a tire, has a dipole antenna. The antenna length Lair, wherein air is exclusively present as the transmission medium, is calculated with the equation Lair=0.5×c/f, wherein c is the speed of light and f is the transmission frequency. In order to achieve a long transmission range, the transponder in the rubber product has an antenna length Lkp between 0.45×Lair and 0.90×Lair, preferably substantially between 0.61×Lair and 0.71×Lair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Strache, Holger Behrends, Carla Recker, Rainer Baumgarten, Andreas Wulf, Roland Jenke, Sadettin Fidan, Olaf Campsheide
  • System and method of displaying content in display windows
    Publication number: 20060282785
    Abstract: A display device comprising a first window displaying a first content item and a second window displaying a second content item is disclosed. The first content item is displayed through use of a first communication path having a first bandwidth. The second content item is displayed through use of a second communication path having a second bandwidth that is less than the first bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventors: Mary McCarthy, Scott Pettit, Roland Noll, Christopher Lee, Norman Cox
  • Capacitor lid and housing coating design
    Publication number: 20060279902
    Abstract: A method and implementation of coating an ultracapacitor lid and housing for improved performance and sealing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Roland Gallay, Daniel Schlunke, Sacha Jenny
  • Tape library storage bridge
    Publication number: 20060282194
    Abstract: A digital data storage unit, such as tape library, has a multiplicity of storage media slots, each storage media slot for receiving a storage media, such as a tape, one or more of data transfer drives, such as tape drives, for writing data to and reading data from the storage media, a robotic device to transport the storage media between the slots or between the drives and the slots, at least one interface bridge which is connected to one or more host computers to one or more tape drives and to the robotic device, the interface bridge is performing bridging and switching operations for commands sent by the host on the basis of sub addresses, such as LUN, to send robotic mover commands to the robotic device, wherein the tape drives are addressed by main address, such as SCSI ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: BDT AG
    Inventors: Roland Schaefer, Christfried Welke
  • Refrigerated display and dispensing assembly
    Publication number: 20060277939
    Abstract: A display and dispensing assembly for use in combination with a freezer cabinet (1) which has an internal temperature T1, said display and dispensing assembly comprises (a) a housing (10) located externally of the freezer cabinet (b) a chamber (11) within the housing in which products can be stored and from which they can be dispensed, said products being stored at a temperature of T2 which is higher than T1 (c) first heat transfer means (18) within the housing (d) second heat transfer means (20) intended to be placed inside the freezer cabinet (e) means (19) for circulating a heat transfer fluid through the first and second heat transfer means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Petrue Beks, Richard Birkett, Martinus Janssen, Wilhelmus Uijen, Roland Vos
  • Transparent molding composition
    Publication number: 20060281873
    Abstract: A polyamide molding composition which can be used for production of a printable or printed item contains a) at most 90 parts by weight of a polyamide obtained from a lactam or from an amino carboxylic acid having at least 10 carbon atoms; and b) from 10 to 100 parts by weight of PA1010, wherein a total of components a) and b) is 100 parts by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: DEGUSSA AG
    Inventors: Kirsten Alting, Franz-Erich Baumann, Sonja Bollmann, Andreas Dowe, Roland Wursche, Georg Schafer
  • Method of effecting a signal readout on a gas-sensitive field-effect transistor
    Publication number: 20060278528
    Abstract: Method of effecting a readout of a gas-sensitive field-effect transistor having an air gap between a gate electrode with a gas-sensitive layer and the readout transistor, in which a potential occurring on the gas-sensitive layer in the presence of a target gas is passed through a noncontacting floating gate electrode to the transistor, wherein the potential of a reference electrode, which together with the floating gate electrode generates a capacitance Cw, is tracked to the potential of the floating gate electrode in order to eliminate the capacitance Cw during the measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Hans Meixner, Uwe Lampe, Roland Pohle, Ralf Schneider, Elfriede Simon
  • Laser-weldable which are transparently, translucently, or opaquely dyed by means of colorants
    Publication number: 20060281846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transparent, translucent, or opaque plastic materials that are tinted due to colorants, which are laser-weldable due to a content of nanoscale laser-sensitive particles. These plastic materials, which may be provided as molded bodies, semifinished products, or lacquer coatings, particularly contain laser-sensitive particles with a particle size from 5 to 100 nm and a content from 0.0001 to 0.1 weight had percent. Typical compounds are nanoscale indium-tin oxide, antimony-tin oxide, indium-zinc oxide, and lanthanum hexaboride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: Degussa AG
    Inventors: Harald Hager, Thomas Hasskerl, Gunther Ittmann, Roland Wursche, Klaus-Dieter Schubel
  • Computer-implemented question and answer game
    Publication number: 20060281510
    Abstract: A computer-implemented question and answer game based on using opinion polls that have already been carried out on a representative sample of people. Results of the opinion polls and predefined questions are stored in a knowledge base associated with the system, which is typically implemented on an Internet site. Players connecting via the Internet are asked to guess what they think the opinion poll results were, and are scored by the computer-implemented system according to the correspondence between their guesses and the information stored in the knowledge base, with prizes being distributed on the basis of the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventor: Roland Moreno
  • Use of moulding compounds for producing treatment devices
    Patent number: 7147471
    Abstract: A method for treating hard tissue infection in a site-specific manner, comprising preparing a negative mold of the hard tissue using an impression material which contains a diagnostic additive which generates an identifiable signal on contact with infected tissue; applying a treatment agent to the negative mold at one or more of infected sites; and re-applying the negative mold on the originally molded hard tissue for a suitable period of time. Also disclosed are methods for making the negative mold, a mouthpiece corresponding to the negative mold, and a treatment device, as well as the treatment device and mouse piece so produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: 3M ESPE AG
    Inventors: Oliver Frey, Roland Brem
  • Circovirus sequences associated with piglet weight loss disease (PWD)
    Patent number: 7148015
    Abstract: The genome sequences and the nucleotide sequences coding for the PWD circovirus polypeptides, such as the circovirus structural and non-structural polypeptides, vectors including the sequences, and cells and animals transformed by the vectors are provided. Methods for detecting the nucleic acids or polypeptides, and kits for diagnosing infection by a PWD circovirus, also are provided. Method for selecting compounds capable of modulating the viral infection is further provided. Pharmaceutical, including vaccines, compositions for preventing and/or treating viral infections caused by PWD circovirus and the use of vectors for preventing and/or treating diseases also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: André Jestin, Emmanuel Albina, Pierre Le Cann, Philippe Blanchard, Evelyne Hutet, Claire Arnauld, Catherine Truong, Dominique Mahe, Roland Cariolet, François Madec
  • Orthogonal heterodyne optical signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR) monitoring method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7149407
    Abstract: An orthogonal heterodyne in-band optical signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR) monitoring method and apparatus that use the polarization characteristics of two narrow bandwidth filtered optical spectral components which is not only insensitive to the effects of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and inter-channel cross-phase modulation (XPM) induced nonlinear polarization scattering, but also independent of bit rate and modulation format. The monitoring method is demonstrated for both linear and nonlinear systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Doerr, Daniel Kilper, Lothar Moeller, Roland Ryf, Chongjiin Xie
  • Iris recognition and tracking for optical treatment
    Patent number: 7146983
    Abstract: A system and method are provided in which an iris or eye image is taken during a refractive diagnostic analysis. The image is employed for aligning data from the analysis with data from other refractive analysis instruments, as well as aligning a refractive surgical tool, such as a laser, with the eye for treatment. Further, the stored iris image is compared with the patient's iris before treatment, verifying that the correct eye is to be treated with a developed treatment pattern. A variety of refractive instruments can be used, such as corneal topography systems and wavefront aberration systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kristian Hohla, Thomas Neuhann, Gerhard Youssefi, Roland Toennies
  • Amorphous polyether glycols based on bis-substituted oxetane monomers
    Patent number: 7148309
    Abstract: This invention is directed to mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers having fluorinated alkoxymethylene side chains, hydroxy-terminated prepolymers derived from these mono- and bis-substituted oxetane monomers and tetrahydrofuran (THF), and polymers produced from these prepolymers, as well as the synthesis processes associated with each, and the use of the monomers, prepolymers and ultimate polymers, both directly and as components of numerous compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: AMPAC Fine Chemicals LLC
    Inventors: Aslam A. Malik, Thomas G. Archibald, Roland P. Carlson, Kenneth J. Wynne, Edward N. Kresge
  • Method and apparatus for equalization across plural data channels
    Patent number: 7149432
    Abstract: Optical equalization across N (an integer, N>1) channels of a multi-channel link of a communications network, is accomplished by averaging effects of optical performance variations within each of the M (an integer, M>1) parallel data signals. At a transmitting end node of the link, each one of the M data signals are distributed across the N channels of the link. Thus a substantially equal portion of each data signal is conveyed through the link in each one of the N channels. At a receiving end node of the link, respective bit-streams received over the N channels to are processed recover the M data signals. As a result, bit error rates of the bit-streams received through each channel are averaged across the M data signals, all of which therefore have a substantially equal aggregate bit error rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Roland A. Smith, Kim B. Roberts
  • Fishing pole holder
    Patent number: 7146763
    Abstract: A fishing pole holder is designed especially for use in catching large deep sea fish and has a bent and telescoping stanchion that is received in a standard pole holder found on a gunwale of a boat and other locations. A telescoping cross bar is attached to the top of the stanchion and has a padded member on one end and a gimble assembly on the other. The gimble assembly holds the fishing pole and allows pivoting along an X and Y axis. An arrester assembly is provided about the gimble assembly for safety should the fish pull down hard on the line of the fishing pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Roland Stanton
  • Banderoling machine
    Patent number: 7147737
    Abstract: A banderoling machine joins film webs from a roll to form a film curtain. Film is placed around material to be banderoled to form a loop and the loop is tightened to clamp at least one of the film webs, and is heat-sealed and separated from the remainder of the film. The web need not be positioned exactly and there is no film waste by providing, a film changing unit where both the working film web and the supply film web are guided through a film sealing unit having at least one separating heat-sealing device to produce a pinch-separating seam between the old working film web and the supply film web and between the excess supply film web and the remainder of the old working film web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Emil Pester GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Rassl, Manfred Kirchmann