Patents by Inventor Thomas Kemp
Thomas Kemp 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).
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Patent number: 9375532Abstract: Described is an injection device for administering a dose of a medicament comprising a case having a proximal end and a distal end, a carrier adapted to accommodate a syringe, and a trigger button. In a first state, the trigger button is coupled to the case and/or the carrier and abuts the distal end of the case. In an intermediate state, the case moves proximally relative to the carrier and the trigger button, and the trigger button engages the carrier. In a second state, the trigger button and the carrier move proximally relative to the case, and the trigger button disengages the carrier and engages the case.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9372860Abstract: A method for content recommendation for a user, wherein a song or a video is recommended to the user and a confidence measure is determined for the recommended song. The confidence measure is displayed to the user, so the user may get more confidence into the recommendation of the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventors: Jana Eggink, Thomas Kemp, Wilhelm Hagg, Taufan Zimmer, Tomasz Feduszczak
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Publication number: 20160151586Abstract: Described is an autoinjector (1) comprising a case (2), a syringe carrier (8) slidably disposed within the case (2) and adapted to hold a syringe (3) including a stopper (6), a plunger (12) slidably disposed within the syringe carrier (8) and adapted to apply a force on the stopper (6), and a drive spring (10) disposed within the plunger (12) and biasing the plunger (12) relative to the syringe carrier (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventor: Thomas Kemp
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Publication number: 20160151585Abstract: Described is an autoinjector (1) comprising a case (2) including a rib (2.3), a needle shroud (7) telescopically coupled to the case (2) and movable between a first extended position (FEP), a retracted position (RP) and a locked second extended position (SEP), a carrier (8) slidably arranged in the case (2), adapted to hold a medicament container, and movable from a first axial position to a second axial position relative to the case (2), a collar (16) rotatably and slidably disposed in the case (2) and coupled to the needle shroud (7) and the carrier (8), and a trigger button (13) operably coupled to the carrier (8). The carrier (8) abuts the rib (2.3) in the first axial position and the needle shroud (7) is in the first extended position (FEP) and disengages the rib (2.3) when the needle shroud (7) is in the retracted position (RP) and the trigger button (13) is pressed to advance the carrier (8) to the second axial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventor: Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9352090Abstract: An auto-injector comprising a tubular chassis, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged partially inside the chassis, a drive spring and a plunger, the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with a carrier, a control spring, and a needle insertion control mechanism comprising a first collar biased by the control spring in a proximal direction. At least one resilient beam is proximally arranged on the first collar, wherein respective recesses are arranged in the carrier and case. A transversal extension of a head of the resilient beam is wider than a gap between the carrier and the chassis causing the head of the resilient beam to abut a distal face on the recess in the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Publication number: 20160144129Abstract: Describe is an autoinjector (1) comprising a case (2) adapted to hold a medicament container having a needle (4), a needle shroud (7) telescopically coupled to the case (2) and movable between a first extended position (FEP) relative to the case (2) in which the needle (4) is covered and a retracted position (RP) relative to the case (2) in which the needle (4) is exposed, and a plunger (10) rotationally and slidably disposed in the case (2). The plunger (10) is rotatable relative to the case (2) between a first rotational position in which the plunger (10) is engaged to the case (2) and a second rotational position in which the plunger (10) disengages the case (2). The needle shroud (7) is operably coupled to the plunger (10). When the needle shroud (7) translates from the first extended position (FEP) to the retracted position (RP), the plunger (10) rotates from the first rotational position to the second rotational position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Carsten Mosebach, Thomas Kemp
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Publication number: 20160144133Abstract: Described is an autoinjector (1) comprising a case (2) having a rib (2.9), a needle shroud (7) telescopically coupled to the case (2) and movable between a first extended position (EP), a retracted position (RP) and a locked second extended position (SEP), a carrier (8) slidably arranged in the case (2), adapted to hold a medicament container, and movable from a first axial position to a second axial position relative to the case (2), and a collar (16) rotatably and slidably disposed in the case (2) and coupled to the needle shroud (7) and the carrier (8). The collar (16) abuts the rib (2.9) when the needle shroud (7) is in the first extended position (EP) and the carrier (8) is in the first axial position, and the collar (16) disengages the rib (2.9) when the needle shroud (7) is in the retracted position (RP) and the carrier (8) is in the second axial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: Thomas Kemp
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Publication number: 20160144135Abstract: Described is an autoinjector (1) comprising a case (2) adapted to hold a medicament container having a needle (4), a needle shroud (7) telescopically coupled to the case (2) and movable between a first extended position (FEP) relative to the case (2) in which the needle (4) is covered, and a retracted position (RP) relative to the case (2) in which the needle (4) is exposed, and a second extended position (SEP) relative to the case (2) in which the needle (4) is covered and the needle shroud (7) cannot translate relative to the case (2), and a plunger (10) slidably disposed in the case (2) and movable between a proximal position, an intermediate position and a distal position relative to the case (2). When the plunger (10) is in the intermediate position and the needle shroud (7) is in the retracted position (RP), the plunger (10) abuts the case (2) to prevent the needle shroud (7) from returning to the exten ded position (EP).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Stefan Taal, Thomas Kemp
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Publication number: 20160129194Abstract: A detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction includes a resilient beam on one of the components and a rhomboid ramp member on the other component. The resilient beam is essentially straight when relaxed and has a first beam head and is arranged to interact in a ramped engagement with respectively one of two ramps. Each ramp is on one longitudinal side of the rhomboid ramp member such that application of a translative force between the components in one longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to one of the ramps in a first state deflects the resilient beam in one transversal direction and such that application of a translative force between the components in the other longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to the other one of the ramps deflects the resilient beam in the other transversal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Publication number: 20160106923Abstract: An Injection device for administering a dose of liquid medicament to patient comprises—a syringe containing the dose of medicament—a hollow injection needle adapted to penetrate skin of the patient, —a stopper translatably disposed within syringe, —a plunger connectable to stopper and translatable in at least a proximal direction to displace stopper in the proximal direction and—a releasable noise component capable of, upon release, generating an audible and/or tactile feedback. The proximal displacement of stopper causes the dose of the medicament to be expelled through the hollow injection needle. The noise component is released when the plunger reaches a position relative to the syringe in which stopper is located in proximity of a proximal end of the syringe. The released noise component impacts on at least one component of the injection device to generate the audible and/or tactile feedback indicating the end of the injection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Patent number: 9317852Abstract: A method for recommending content items of a content item data base to a user, including: broadcasting user group characteristics, wherein a respective user group characteristic is descriptive of a respective user group; receiving at a user's location the user group characteristics; assigning at the user's location the user to at least one of the user groups, providing user group preference data, the user group preference data being descriptive of a relation between the user groups and the content items; and recommending content items according to the user group preference data.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SONY Deutschland GmbHInventor: Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9298809Abstract: Recommending one or more items among a plurality of items to a first user by generating a weighted data set by applying a weight factor to each of a plurality of user event data sets each derived from a previous user event of a second user of the recommendation system. Each of the user event data sets includes a user identifier of the second user, an item identifier of an item involved in the previous user event, and time information regarding a time of the previous user event. The weight factor is derived from the time information of the corresponding previous user event. One or more recommended items are determined based on an algorithm using the weighted data set.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Thomas Kemp, Naoki Kamimaeda, Masanori Miyahara
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Patent number: 9295785Abstract: The invention relates to a front end for an auto-injector, the front end comprising a syringe with an injection needle and a stopper, wherein the syringe is slidably arranged within a syringe retainer, wherein an outer sleeve for preventing access to the needle is removably arrangeable over the syringe retainer, wherein the syringe retainer comprises a screw thread for connecting it to a correspondent screw thread of a mounting of a re-usable auto-injector back end comprising a drive means for advancing the syringe and needle in a proximal direction for needle insertion and for advancing the stopper within the syringe for injection, wherein a resilient locking barb is arranged to rotationally lock the syringe retainer to the mounting in an unscrewing direction when the front end is screwed to the re-usable back end and when the outer sleeve is removed, wherein the outer sleeve is arranged to unlock the resilient locking barb when arranged over the syringe retainer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Matthew Ekman, Thomas Kemp, Douglas A. Jennings
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Publication number: 20160088338Abstract: A method comprises sending a control signal from an electronic device to a media device, the control signal comprising a channel preset identifier and causing the media device to switch to a channel identified by the channel preset identifier; receiving, at the electronic device, an audio signal emitted by the media device; generating, by the electronic device, an audio fingerprint from the received audio signal; obtaining, by the electronic device, channel meta information based on the audio fingerprint; and determining channel preset mapping information, the channel preset mapping information associating the channel preset identifier with the channel meta information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Thomas KEMP
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Patent number: 9256877Abstract: The invention provides a method for updating a user profile on a server (2) based on user content items on a client (1), the server (2) being able to communicate with the client (1) via a communication network (3), comprising the following steps: a) for each of at least a part of said user content items on the client (1), providing characteristic information suitable to identify a respective user content item; b) transferring the characteristic information of the user content items from the client (1) to the server (2); c) comparing the characteristic information of the user content items with characteristic information suitable to identify the server content items; and d) updating the user profile on the server (2) based on the comparison carried out in c).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbHInventor: Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9242047Abstract: The invention relates to a detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction, the detent mechanism comprising a resilient beam on one of the components and a rhomboid ramp member on the other component, the resilient beam being essentially straight when relaxed and having a first beam head and arranged to interact in a ramped engagement with respectively one of two ramps, each ramp on one longitudinal side of the rhomboid ramp member in such a manner that application of a translative force between the components in one longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to one of the ramps in a first state deflects the resilient beam in one transversal direction when a predetermined value of the translative force, at least depending on the resilience of the resilient beam, is overcome so as to allow the first beam head to travel along one transversal side of the rhomboid ramp member on continued relative translation of the components, wherein the resilient beaType: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Patent number: 9205200Abstract: The invention refers to a finger guard for an injection device with a hollow injection needle arranged to be hidden inside a component with an orifice prior to use and to be advanced relative to the component through the orifice for inserting it into an injection site, the finger guard comprising a spring wire attached to the component and comprising an arcuate transversal section biased in a manner to flex inwards so as to essentially obstruct the orifice for finger access when released but staying enough off-centre to allow the needle to advance through the orifice without touching the spring wire.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Yannick Hourmand, Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Patent number: 9182246Abstract: A method for identifying an electrical device connected to a mains grid is provided, the method comprising measuring at least one electrical characteristic on the mains grid with a sensor connected to a socket of the mains grid; comparing the at least one electrical characteristic with a plurality of stored candidate electrical characteristics each corresponding to one of a plurality of candidate electrical devices; and identifying the electrical device based on the stored candidate electrical characteristic that is closest to the at least one electrical characteristic. A corresponding system and a corresponding sensor are provided as well.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Thomas Kemp, Carsten Merkle, Andreas Schwager, Dietmar Schill, Lothar Stadelmeier, Ben Eitel
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Patent number: 9165066Abstract: Generating a user music taste database, comprising determining, as a first count, a number of appearances of a selected classification identifier of classification identifiers in a user specific first set of music identifiers, wherein the classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the first set of music identifiers and determining, by the circuitry, as a second count, a number of appearances of the selected classification identifier in a second set of music identifiers, wherein classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the second set of music identifiers. A classification identifier related to the selected classification identifier is stored in an expertise list in the user music taste database, if a value determined from setting the first count and the second count in relation to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined expertise level threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Fritz Hohl, Thomas Kemp
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Patent number: 9155844Abstract: An injection device for administering a dose of a liquid medicament is disclosed. The device includes a syringe containing the dose and a hollow injection needle. The device includes a stopper translatably disposed within the syringe and a plunger connectable to the stopper and translatable in at least a proximal direction to displace the stopper. The device further includes a releasable noise component capable of, upon release, generating an audible and/or tactile feedback. Proximal displacement of the stopper causes the dose to be expelled through the injection needle. The noise component is released when the plunger reaches a position relative to the syringe in which the stopper is located in proximity of a proximal end of the syringe. The released noise component impacts on at least one component of the injection device to generate the audible and/or tactile feedback indicating the end of the injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman