Patents Issued in July 6, 2004
  • Patent number: 6759553
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of creatine or creatine monohydrate by reaction of sodium or potassium sarcosinate with cyanamide at a temperature from 20 to 150° C. and a pH from 7.0 to 14.0 comprises carrying out the pH adjustment with carbonic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Kessel, Günter Scherr, Michael Kluge, Norbert Biedermann, Thomas Greindl, Thomas Bogenstätter, Wolfgang Hähnlein
  • Patent number: 6759554
    Abstract: The present invention relates to copper-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming methods. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of an amide or amine moiety and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In additional embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between a nitrogen atom of an acyl hydrazine and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In other embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic, e.g., indole, pyrazole, and indazole, and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Stephen L. Buchwald, Artis Klapars, Jon C. Antilla, Gabriel E. Job, Martina Wolter, Fuk Y. Kwong, Gero Nordmann, Edward J. Hennessy
  • Patent number: 6759555
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel processes for the preparation of combretastatins or stilbene compounds of formulae (I) and (III) wherein A is NH2 or and PG is a protecting group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma S.A.
    Inventors: Stéphane Mutti, Michel Lavigne, Irina Malejonock, Jean-Paul Casimir
  • Patent number: 6759556
    Abstract: Process for the production of cyclohexanone oxime in which a phosphate-containing aqueous reaction medium is cycled from a hydroxylammonium synthesis zone to a cyclohexanone oxime synthesis zone and back to the hydroxylammonium synthesis zone, in which hydroxylammonium synthesis zone hydroxylammonium is formed by catalytic reduction of nitrate with hydrogen, and in which cyclohexanone oxime synthesis zone hydroxylammonium is reacted with cyclohexanone to form cyclohexanone oxime, wherein the phosphate concentration in the acqueous reaction medium entering the cyclohexanone oxime synthesis zone is higher than 3.0 mol/l.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: DSM N.V.
    Inventors: Marc Blaauw, Theodorus Friederich Maria Riesthuis, Alex Pit, Henk Oevering, Antonius Jacobus Franciscus Simons
  • Patent number: 6759557
    Abstract: A melanin synthesis inhibitor composition containing at least one macrocyclic compound represented by Formula (1) wherein X is a group selected among the groups consisting of C═O; CH—OH and O═C—CHOH; R being a chain hydrocarbon having 13 to 24 carbon atoms, R forms a ring with X and may be saturated or contain 1 to 3 unsaturated bonds and may be substituted by a lower alkyl group of 1 to 3 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Takasago International Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsuda, Hiroyasu Kumamoto, Eiko Tamai, Misao Yagi, Kenichi Yamamoto, Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Shinya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6759558
    Abstract: A novel process allows a simple preparation of highly pure halogen-substituted dibenzyl alcohols by reduction of the corresponding halogen-substituted terephthalic acids and reaction with an alkylating agent, sulfuric acid, alkyl- or arylsulfonic acids. The highly pure halogen-substituted dibenzyl alcohols obtained are suitable in particular for preparing pharmaceutically or agrochemically active compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Lars Rodefeld
  • Patent number: 6759559
    Abstract: The first embodiment of the present invention provides a process, which includes: in a continuous process in a membrane reactor, asymmetrically hydrogenating at least one C═C, C═N or C═O double bond with a catalyst. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a ligand, which includes at least one di-1,3-aminophosphine homochiral active center; optionally, a linker; and a molecular weight-enlarging polymer; wherein the active center is bound to the molecular weight-enlarging polymer through the linker or is bound directly to the molecular weight-enlarging polymer; and wherein the linker is defined in the claims. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a process for preparing the above-noted ligand, and a catalyst that includes the above-noted ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignees: Degussa AG, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Laue, Andreas Liese, Christian Wandrey, Olaf Burkhardt, Jens Woeltinger, Andreas Bommarius, Hans Henniges, Jean-Louis Philippe, Andreas Karau, Karlheinz Drauz
  • Patent number: 6759560
    Abstract: Alkali metal methoxides are prepared from aqueous alkali metal hydroxide, which may have been admixed with methanol, and methanol in a reaction column having at least 5, preferably from 15 to 30, theoretical plates between the feed point for the aqueous alkali metal hydroxide and the feed point for the methanol. The gaseous methanol/water mixture formed in the reaction is fractionated in a rectification column. In one variant of the invention, the trays chosen for the reaction column configured as a bubble cap tray, valve tray or sieve tray column are trays in which not more than 5%, preferably <1%, of the liquid rains through the respective trays. In another variant of the process of the present invention, the double-wall reaction column has a temperature in the double wall which is from 3 to 10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Guth, Holger Friedrich, Hans-Josef Sterzel, Gerd Kaibel, Kirsten Burkart, Elke Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 6759561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of tetrahydrogeraniol, wherein the product mixtures and distillation residues from linalool, citronellal, citronellol or geraniol/nerol synthesis are fed directly to catalytic hydrogenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Funke, Till Gerlach, Klaus Ebel, Signe Unverricht, Frank Haese, Kirsten Burkart, Hans-Georg Göbbel
  • Patent number: 6759562
    Abstract: Presented is an improvement to a previous invention involving the catalytic hydrogenation of the C2 to C5 and heavier acetylenes and dienes in a thermally cracked feed stream without significantly hydrogenating the C2 and C3 olefins. The improvement involves the use of a fixed bed hydrogenation reactor system in combination with a modified version of the catalytic distillation unit used in the prior art. The modification to the catalytic distillation unit involves improvement of the liquid recycle scheme. The fixed bed reactors combined with the modified catalytic distillation allows for 100% conversion of acetylene and helps to maintain high conversion of the other dienes and acetylenes with no ethylene or propylene conversion under a variety of conditions. These condition variations include but are not limited to the feed diene and acetylene composition, the mol % carbon monoxide in the feed, and catalyst deactivation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Gartside, Robert I. Haines, Thomas Skourlis, Charles Sumner
  • Patent number: 6759563
    Abstract: A combination isomerization and liquid phase adsorptive separation process has been developed. In this arrangement, a C5+ naphtha stream is split into a heavy hydrocarbon stream comprising normal heptane and higher boiling hydrocarbons, an isomerization and adsorption zone feed stream comprising pentanes and lower boiling hydrocarbons, and a desorbent stream containing hexanes. The isomerization and adsorption zone feed stream is combined with an isomerization section effluent to form a combined feed to an adsorptive separation section. In the adsorption separation section, normal pentanes are selectively adsorbed on an adsorbent material, and a raffinate stream comprising hexanes and isoparaffins is recovered and passed to a deisohexanizer column. A desorbent stream containing normal hexane is recovered as a sidecut from the deisohexanizer column and is combined with the desorbent stream containing the hexanes from the naphtha splitter to supply the desorbent for the adsorptive separation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Frederick M. Hibbs
  • Patent number: 6759564
    Abstract: Areas in which toxic material has been released, particularly in gaseous form but also in liquid form, are decontaminated by forming gas hydrate of the toxic agent. Smaller-molecule toxic agents form sI or sII type hydrates, whereas larger-molecule toxic agents for sH type hydrates. A “companion gas” or “companion agent” is supplied to fill the smaller voids of the sH hydrate, thereby enabling larger-molecule toxic agents to form hydrates by filling the larger voids of the sH hydrate which, but for the presence of the smaller-molecule agent in the smaller voids, would be unstable and not form. Portable as well as fixed, permanently installed apparatus for conducting hydrate-based decontamination is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michael D. Max, Sarah A. Holman
  • Patent number: 6759565
    Abstract: The invention is to provide (1) a method for decomposing chlorine containing organic compounds (DXNs) contained in an exhaust gas in which method a high decomposition ratio of the DXNs can be obtained even at a low temperature and the effects by SOx can be repressed to a minimum and (2) a method for treating a used catalyst; the method for decomposing DXNs contained in an exhaust gas comprises contacting the DXNs contained in the exhaust gas with nitrogen dioxide (NO2) which is contained in the exhaust gas or added from the outside into the exhaust gas at 100 to 450° C. in the presence of a catalyst comprising a titanium oxideu, molybdenum oxide, and vanadium oxide, the contents of Ti, Mo, and V in which catalyst being in the range of 99 to 70/0.5 to 15/0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Kato, Masatoshi Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 6759566
    Abstract: A bandaging system for-use in the treatment of a patient with a venous leg ulcer comprising as an inner layer in the system a highly absorbent bandage which bandage comprises at least 5% by weight of a highly absorbent fibre and as a further layer in the system an elastic bandage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Andrew D. Court, Douglas Queen
  • Patent number: 6759567
    Abstract: A personal care product that has a liquid impermeable backsheet, a liquid permeable topsheet, and an absorbent composite located between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent composite has an upper layer made of synthetic fiber with at most 20 weight percent pulp and the upper layer has a density between about 0.03 and 0.15 g/cc and a basis weight between about 20 to 75 gsm. The composite has a lower layer having from 80 to 95 weight percent pulp, at most 20 weight percent binder, and has a density greater than the upper layer and between 0.06 and 0.20 g/cc, and a basis weight between 120 and 200 gsm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Wilson Colman, Rodney Lawrence Abba, Jaime Braverman, John Thomas Cooper, Maureen Myrl Falls, Tiffany Marshalle Lee Hunter, Steven Rashad Inabinet, David Martin Jackson, Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Yen-Ling Lai, Sylvia Bandy Little, Robert John Makolin, David Joseph Nickel
  • Patent number: 6759568
    Abstract: (1) Transgenic medaka fish into which a polynucleotide having the nucleotide sequence from 211 to 1935 position represented by Sequence ID No: 1 is introduced, (2) A method of producing medaka fish having one or more thrombi, comprising the step of raising the transgenic medaka fish described in (1) in the presence of estrogen, (3) Medaka fish having one or more thrombi produced by the method described in (2), and (4) A method of testing an estrogen-like acting substance, comprising the steps of raising the transgenic medaka fish described in (1) in test water, and observing whether or not one or more thrombi are formed in the medaka fish after the raising step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: President of Hiroshima University
    Inventor: Ichiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6759569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapid and large-scale production of tomato mutants by utilizing miniature tomato plants which can be crossed with tomato commercial plants. Mutations are induced in the miniature tomato cultivars and desired mutants are subsequently identified in the resulting mutant tomato population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventors: Avraham A. Levy, Rafael Meissner, Yonatan Elkind
  • Patent number: 6759570
    Abstract: The present invention refers to an isolated nucleic acid molecule for expression of a gene in seeds, having promoter activity, comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1, a first sequence at least 70% homologous to SEQ ID NO:1, with the functionality of SEQ ID NO:1, a second sequence at least 70% homologous to the sequence complementary to SEQ ID NO:1, with the functionality of SEQ ID NO:1, and fragments thereof, with the functionality of SEQ ID NO:1; to chimeric genes, constructs, vectors, expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants comprising said sequences; as well as to a method for expression of a gene specifically in seeds or seed parts using one of the mentioned sequences or chimeric genes comprising said sequence s and to a method for obtaining substances through the transferring of the mentioned chimeric genes to a plant and expressing said chimeric gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
    Inventors: Maria Pilar Prieto-Dapena, María Concepción Almoguera Antolinez, Juán Bautista Jordano Fraga
  • Patent number: 6759571
    Abstract: The introduction of DNA episomes into plant cells to reduce or prevent the expression of endogenous nuclear or chromosomal genes is described. Geminivirus vectors to provide systemic silencing of an endogenous plant gene in a treated plant are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventor: Dominique Robertson
  • Patent number: 6759572
    Abstract: The invention relates to processes for producing transgenic plants using tissue-specific promoters. In these plants, the development of particular plant parts can be prevented deliberately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hoechst Schering Agrevo GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Bartsch
  • Patent number: 6759573
    Abstract: The invention provides a method to enhance Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plant cells, parts and tissues, thereby enhancing the production of transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Paula Olhoft, David A. Somers
  • Patent number: 6759574
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for suppressing gall formation in plant cells induced by Agrobacterium infection are disclosed. The methods involve introducing at least one DNA construct, encoding at least one untranslatable sense-strand RNA and/or double-stranded RNA, into a plant cell. Introduction of these molecules into the plant cell causes the plant cells to become resistant to gall formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University
    Inventors: Lloyd Walter Ream, Jr., Machteld Mok, Hyewon Lee
  • Patent number: 6759575
    Abstract: An improved barstar gene and improved barstar protein can be used to neutralize the activity of a barnase in eukaryotic cells, particular in plant cells. The improved barstar gene can be used to produce fertility restorer plants capable of restoring the fertility to a line of male-sterile plants that contain in the nuclear genome of their cells a chimeric gene comprising a stamen-selective promoter and a DNA coding for a barnase. Restorer plants containing the barstar gene in the restorer plant's nuclear genome is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Bayer Bioscience N.V.
    Inventors: Frank Michiels, Mark Williams
  • Patent number: 6759576
    Abstract: An enhanced, diploid pollenizer watermelon plant and method used to maximize the yield of triploid seedless watermelons per area. The enhanced pollenizer watermelon plant of the invention is either a hybrid variety, an open-pollinated variety or a synthetic variety, that exhibits the characteristics of lacy vine, small leaves, prolific male flowers, small fruit with a brittle rind that splits when the fruit is overripe or breaks when relatively small physical forces are applied. The watermelon plant of the invention is also characterized by extended flowering duration, thereby increasing the number of triploid watermelon flowers that are pollinated and set fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Xingping Zhang, Tom Vare Williams
  • Patent number: 6759577
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 37Y15, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 37Y15, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 37Y15. This inventions also relates to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize lines derived from hybrid maize line 37Y15 and to the maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Elliott Piper
  • Patent number: 6759578
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH6ME, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH6ME, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH6ME with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH6ME with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6ME, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6ME and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman E. Williams, David Lee Benson
  • Patent number: 6759579
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inbred maize line, designated NP2171, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line NP2171, and methods for producing a hybrid maize pland and seed by crossing a plant of the inbred line 2171 with itself or with another maize plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Christopher Perry
  • Patent number: 6759580
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH87H, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH87H, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH87H with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH87H with another maize line or plant and to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH87H, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH87H and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Thomas Cunnyngham
  • Patent number: 6759581
    Abstract: An acoustic stringed instrument body includes a soundboard, a bottom surface and a side surface, wherein the soundboard includes a relief cut, wherein the relief cut is dimensioned to create a more flexible coupling between the soundboard and the sidewall, wherein the relief cut improves the tone of the instrument by allowing the soundboard to vibrate more freely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Taylor-Listug, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert D. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6759582
    Abstract: A cover for a musical instrument, especially but not exclusively a drum, includes a portion formed by inner and outer sheets fastened together to define a pocket that is padded with a desiccating material. Preferably, the inner and outer sheets are quilted to define a plurality of pockets, each of which is tightly stuffed with a granular form of desiccating material. In this way, the cover provides protection for the instrument and also assists in keeping the instrument in tune by removing moisture from air trapped between the instrument and the portion defining the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Inventor: Ian Colin Rouston
  • Patent number: 6759583
    Abstract: A stick for beating a percussion instrument. The instrument has an elastic component. A part of the stick forms a handle used for holding the stick. The elastic component is a part of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hoshino Gakki Mfg. Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Mizuno, Tomonori Ishizuka, Hiromi Kajiyama, Yuichiro Miura, Tomoaki Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 6759584
    Abstract: A handrest for musical instruments includes a fastening loop attached to the instrument, a handrest handle attached to the fastening loop that shifts the weight of the instrument from the player's thumb to the fold between the player's thumb and index finger, the handrest handle including an upper end for resting on the players fold, a palm portion extending downwardly from the upper end for contacting the player's palm, and a turning joint at a plam point of the lower palm portion, the palm point spaces downwardly from the upper end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kari Laukka
    Inventor: Jari Sundström
  • Patent number: 6759585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a musical-file-processing apparatus, a musical-file-processing method and a musical-file-processing method program. The present invention can be applied to a case in which, for example, musical files are stored typically in a personal computer to be reproduced later. Each musical file is recorded by detecting a recording level of the file and the file is reproduced with the volume of the file corrected on the basis of the detected level so that complicated operations can be avoided and recorded musical files with different recording level can each be reproduced at a proper volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 6759586
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoelectric module, comprising a plurality of p-type thermoelectric elements each comprising a p-type semiconductor having a skutterdite crystal structure, a plurality of n-type thermoelectric elements each comprising a n-type semiconductor having a skutterdite crystal structure, at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode, at least one first alloy layer and at least one second alloy layer, wherein said at least one first alloy layer and said at least one second alloy layer contain Sb and at least one transition metal element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Au and Cu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoki Shutoh, Hiromitsu Takeda, Naruhito Kondo
  • Patent number: 6759587
    Abstract: The present invention provides the novel thermoelectric materials having, in combination, processability and excellent thermoelectric characteristics, the thermoelectric materials being able to provide n-type thermoelectric characteristics in accordance with the nature of the employed inorganic thermoelectric materials; a thermoelectric device employing the materials; and a method for producing the thermoelectric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignees: Hokushin Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Toshima, Hu Yan, Kohsuke Kamei, Akinori Tsubata, Takashi Tokuda
  • Patent number: 6759588
    Abstract: An improved circuit board assembly includes a cover or other member disposed adjacent to the substrate and, for example, spaced therefrom so as to define a plenum. Self-aligning heat sinks (or other heat dissipative elements) are spring-mounted (or otherwise resiliently mounted) to the cover and, thereby, placed in thermal contact with one or more of the circuit components. Flow-diverting elements are provided, e.g., so that the overall impedance of the board substantially matches that of one or more of the other circuit boards in a common chassis. The circuit board cover can be adapted to provide thermal and/or electromagnetic emission control, as well as shock and vibration. A connector arrangement provides electrical, mechanical and/or other operational coupling between the circuit board and a chassis regardless of whether the board is disposed in a slot on a first (e.g., upper) side of a source of cooling air for the chassis or on a second (e.g., lower) opposite side of that source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Banton, Don W. Blanchet, John R. Freeburn, Jr., Jason E. Bardo, A. Gregory Rocco, Jr., Mike W. Gust, Paul N. Zuidema
  • Patent number: 6759589
    Abstract: A raceway system is disclosed. The raceway system includes a base cap mountable to a top surface of an office furniture panel, at least one horizontal raceway section positionable adjacent the base cap, at least one corner raceway section positionable adjacent the base cap, and a cover securable to the base cap. The base cap has at least one aperture for wiring to pass therethrough. The corner raceway section has a channel extending axially therethrough, and the corner raceway section allows the wiring to pass vertically through the aperture and the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventor: Charles VanderVelde
  • Patent number: 6759590
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cover assembly including a transparent window portion and a frame of gas-impervious material that can be hermetically attached to a micro-device package base to form a hermetically sealed micro-device package. First, a frame of gas-impervious material is provided, the frame having a continuous sidewall defining a frame aperture there through. The sidewall includes a frame seal-ring area circumscribing the frame aperture. A sheet of a transparent material is also provided, the sheet having a window portion defined thereupon. The window portion has finished top and bottom surfaces. A sheet seal-ring area is prepared on the sheet, the sheet seal-ring area circumscribing the window portion. The frame is positioned against the sheet such that at least a portion of the frame seal-ring area and at least a portion of the sheet seal-ring area contact one another along a continuous junction region that circumscribes the window portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Inventor: David H. Stark
  • Patent number: 6759591
    Abstract: A silicon device includes an insulating substrate having a recess on the surface of the substrate, and a beam-like structure made of silicon on the front surface of the insulating substrate, surrounds the recess. The beam-like structure includes at least one functional section having a supporting section bonded to the insulating substrate and at least one cantilever integral with the supporting section and extending across the recess. The silicon device also includes a frame made of silicon surrounding and spaced from the beam-like structure and on the insulating substrate. The silicon device also includes a conductive film having electrical continuity with the frame and on the surface of the insulating substrate, at least in a portion directly opposite the cantilever. The conductive film prevents the insulating substrate from being charged, thereby significantly suppressing damage of the beam-like structure during dry etching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukihisa Yoshida, Munehito Kumagai, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 6759592
    Abstract: Kaolin is added to the insulation (30) in a metal sheathed, mineral-insulated cables of the type used as a power cable, heating cable, or thermocouples where high temperature and an aggressive medium may exist, and which are typically produced by drawing down the cable. The preferred insulation for the invention is MgO. The addition of kaolin decreases moisture seepage into the insulation and consequent drop in insulation resistivity. It also reduces the loss of electrical resistance as temperature increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Tyco Thermal Control UK Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Guangjun Cai, Mickael Blamire, Robert Stokes, Douglas Wilton, James Snape, Glyn Jones, Jeff Babcock, Ann Machan
  • Patent number: 6759593
    Abstract: A superconducting cable includes at least one layer of tapes of superconducting material circumferentially wound side by side on a support at a prefixed distance forming gaps circumferentially among adjacent tapes. Within the superconducting cable, a non-superconducting material is interposed between adjacent tapes to partially fill the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sergio Spreafico
  • Patent number: 6759594
    Abstract: A wheel speed sensor has a detection element having at least one lead for detecting a wheel speed, at least one terminal portion connected to the lead of the detection element, a holder portion having a detection element fitting portion fitting the detection element therein and a terminal portion fitting portion fitting the terminal portion therein, and a resin sealed portion sealing the holder portion in a state the detection element and the terminal portion connected with an electric wire are held in the holder portion. The detection element fitting portion and the terminal portion fitting portion are disposed such that the lead of the detection element is brought into abutment with or proximity to a predetermined location of the terminal portion when the detection element and the terminal portion are fitted in the detection element fitting portion and the terminal portion fitting portion, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Iijima, Kazuhiro Ota, Shigeru Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 6759595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an outdoor termination for a high voltage cable, comprising an insulator body for receiving the high voltage cable; a filling compound provided within the insulator body and filling at least a portion of the space between the insulator body interior walls and the cable insulation; wherein said filling compound consists of a mixture of particles and an insulating compound; wherein said insulating compound is a crosslinked polymeric material with a DIN ISO hardness of 200 to 500 mm/10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pirelli Kabel und Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Goehlich, Claude Görk
  • Patent number: 6759596
    Abstract: The invention provides multilayer circuit boards and methods for formation of a sequential build circuit board. Among other things, glass fiber reinforced copper clad epoxy substrates, required to provide strength or rigidity to prior boards, are not required for preferred circuit boards of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Shipley Company
    Inventors: James G. Shelnut, Charles R. Shipley, Robert L. Goldberg
  • Patent number: 6759597
    Abstract: Wire bonds are made to palladium coated bonded pads on organic dielectric substrates at temperatures below 200° C. A layer of palladium thicker than 14 micro-inches is covered with a thin flash of gold. Palladium coated over copper pads is protected from copper diffusion by a thin nickel layer positioned between the two. Subsequent baking for 1 hour at 185° C. drives off hydrogen molecules provided the gold is less than 200 Å thick. A bonding wire, preferably of gold is then successfully bonded to the pad using conventional bonding equipment at temperatures below 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Richard Cutting, John Gerard Gaudiello, Luis Jesus Matienzo, Nikhil Mohan Murdeshwar
  • Patent number: 6759598
    Abstract: A power distribution backplane includes a pair of metal panels bonded to opposite sides of a dielectric spacer. One panel is for power and the other for ground, and each is painted a different color. Connectors are provided on each panel in connector areas, with some connectors being accessible from both sides of each panel, and busbars extend out from one end of each panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Marconi Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Kolody, Richard E. Trifiletti, Scott C. Lewis, Kurt P. Fattman
  • Patent number: 6759599
    Abstract: A circuit board comprising a first metal layer formed in patterns on a ceramic substrate, a second metal layer formed in patterns on the first metal layer, and a third metal layer formed covering the top surface of the second metal layer and the majority of the side surface, wherein the first and partial second metal layers not covered by the third metal layer are reduced in width by etching. The circuit board has a fine and high-resolution wiring pattern and makes it possible to realize a miniature high-performance high-output module by mounting at least one high-output semiconductor element thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Tatoh, Jun Yorita
  • Patent number: 6759600
    Abstract: A multilayer wiring board comprising a plurality of conductor patterns stacked with an insulating layer composed of a thermosetting resin interposed between adjacent conductor patterns, wherein the insulating layers are each formed of a pair of film-like thermosetting resin layers and a resin film having a lower coefficient of linear expansion than, and sandwiched between, the thermosetting resin layers, and wherein the electrical connection between the stacked conductor patterns is established by vias formed through the insulating layers. A method of fabricating such a multilayer wiring board is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Koyama, Noritaka Katagiri
  • Patent number: 6759601
    Abstract: A check weighing system is provided which can check weigh samples (1) on a production line. The check weighing system comprises a magnet (13) for creating a static magnetic field over an interrogation zone for creating a net magnetisation within a sample (1) located within the interrogation zone and an RF coil for applying an alternating magnetic field over the interrogation zone for causing excitation of the sample (1) within the interrogation zone according to the principles of NMR. The check weighing system also comprises a sensor for sensing the energy emitted as the sample relaxes back to an equilibrium state after excitation as the samples pass through the interrogation zone on a conveyor belt (9) forming part of the production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Scientific Generics Limited
    Inventors: Michael Petty, David Fathers, Colin Nicholls, David Taylor, Valerie Scott
  • Patent number: 6759602
    Abstract: A method for weighing mailpieces while in motion in a mailpiece weighing system. The weigh pan in the mailpiece horizontal transport path generates a signal corresponding to a weight of the moving mailpiece, and the system controller compares the weight of the moving mailpiece to a postal weight break to determine if the postal weight break is within the margin of error of the weighing mechanism. If the postal weight break is within the margin of error of the weighing mechanism, the system controller stops transport of the moving mailpiece and reweighs the mailpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Miller, Sanju Ballurkar, Anthony E. Yap, Steven H. Joyce