Patents Issued in July 6, 2004
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Patent number: 6759553Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 1999Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Knut Kessel, Günter Scherr, Michael Kluge, Norbert Biedermann, Thomas Greindl, Thomas Bogenstätter, Wolfgang Hähnlein
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Patent number: 6759554Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Stephen L. Buchwald, Artis Klapars, Jon C. Antilla, Gabriel E. Job, Martina Wolter, Fuk Y. Kwong, Gero Nordmann, Edward J. Hennessy
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Patent number: 6759555Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Aventis Pharma S.A.Inventors: Stéphane Mutti, Michel Lavigne, Irina Malejonock, Jean-Paul Casimir
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Patent number: 6759556Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: DSM N.V.Inventors: Marc Blaauw, Theodorus Friederich Maria Riesthuis, Alex Pit, Henk Oevering, Antonius Jacobus Franciscus Simons
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Patent number: 6759557Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Takasago International CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Matsuda, Hiroyasu Kumamoto, Eiko Tamai, Misao Yagi, Kenichi Yamamoto, Toshimitsu Hagiwara, Shinya Watanabe
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Patent number: 6759558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Lars Rodefeld
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Patent number: 6759559Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignees: Degussa AG, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbHInventors: Stephan Laue, Andreas Liese, Christian Wandrey, Olaf Burkhardt, Jens Woeltinger, Andreas Bommarius, Hans Henniges, Jean-Louis Philippe, Andreas Karau, Karlheinz Drauz
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Patent number: 6759560Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Josef Guth, Holger Friedrich, Hans-Josef Sterzel, Gerd Kaibel, Kirsten Burkart, Elke Hoffmann
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Patent number: 6759561Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Funke, Till Gerlach, Klaus Ebel, Signe Unverricht, Frank Haese, Kirsten Burkart, Hans-Georg Göbbel
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Patent number: 6759562Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: ABB Lummus Global Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Gartside, Robert I. Haines, Thomas Skourlis, Charles Sumner
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Patent number: 6759563Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: UOP LLCInventor: Frederick M. Hibbs
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Patent number: 6759564Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael D. Max, Sarah A. Holman
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Patent number: 6759565Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuyoshi Kato, Masatoshi Fujisawa
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Patent number: 6759566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: Andrew D. Court, Douglas Queen
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Patent number: 6759567Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6759568Abstract: (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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: President of Hiroshima UniversityInventor: Ichiro Yamashita
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Patent number: 6759569Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of JerusalemInventors: Avraham A. Levy, Rafael Meissner, Yonatan Elkind
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Patent number: 6759570Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientificasInventors: Maria Pilar Prieto-Dapena, María Concepción Almoguera Antolinez, Juán Bautista Jordano Fraga
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Patent number: 6759571Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 1999Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: North Carolina State UniversityInventor: Dominique Robertson
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Patent number: 6759572Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 24, 1999Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Hoechst Schering Agrevo GmbHInventor: Klaus Bartsch
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Patent number: 6759573Abstract: The invention provides a method to enhance Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plant cells, parts and tissues, thereby enhancing the production of transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Regents of the University of MinnesotaInventors: Paula Olhoft, David A. Somers
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Patent number: 6759574Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 1999Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State UniversityInventors: Lloyd Walter Ream, Jr., Machteld Mok, Hyewon Lee
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Patent number: 6759575Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Bayer Bioscience N.V.Inventors: Frank Michiels, Mark Williams
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Patent number: 6759576Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Xingping Zhang, Tom Vare Williams
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Patent number: 6759577Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Todd Elliott Piper
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Patent number: 6759578Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Norman E. Williams, David Lee Benson
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Patent number: 6759579Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Christopher Perry
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Patent number: 6759580Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Charles Thomas Cunnyngham
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Patent number: 6759581Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Taylor-Listug, Inc.Inventor: Robert D. Taylor
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Patent number: 6759582Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Inventor: Ian Colin Rouston
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Patent number: 6759583Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Hoshino Gakki Mfg. Co. Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Mizuno, Tomonori Ishizuka, Hiromi Kajiyama, Yuichiro Miura, Tomoaki Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 6759584Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Kari LaukkaInventor: Jari Sundström
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Patent number: 6759585Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka
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Patent number: 6759586Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoki Shutoh, Hiromitsu Takeda, Naruhito Kondo
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Patent number: 6759587Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignees: Hokushin CorporationInventors: Naoki Toshima, Hu Yan, Kohsuke Kamei, Akinori Tsubata, Takashi Tokuda
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Patent number: 6759588Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6759589Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventor: Charles VanderVelde
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Patent number: 6759590Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Inventor: David H. Stark
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Patent number: 6759591Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukihisa Yoshida, Munehito Kumagai, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 6759592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 6, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Tyco Thermal Control UK LimitedInventors: Kevin Guangjun Cai, Mickael Blamire, Robert Stokes, Douglas Wilton, James Snape, Glyn Jones, Jeff Babcock, Ann Machan
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Patent number: 6759593Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi S.p.A.Inventor: Sergio Spreafico
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Patent number: 6759594Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Iijima, Kazuhiro Ota, Shigeru Fukazawa
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Patent number: 6759595Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pirelli Kabel und Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lothar Goehlich, Claude Görk
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Patent number: 6759596Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Shipley CompanyInventors: James G. Shelnut, Charles R. Shipley, Robert L. Goldberg
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Patent number: 6759597Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 1998Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lawrence Richard Cutting, John Gerard Gaudiello, Luis Jesus Matienzo, Nikhil Mohan Murdeshwar
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Patent number: 6759598Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Marconi Communications, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Kolody, Richard E. Trifiletti, Scott C. Lewis, Kurt P. Fattman
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Patent number: 6759599Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyoshi Tatoh, Jun Yorita
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Patent number: 6759600Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshinori Koyama, Noritaka Katagiri
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Patent number: 6759601Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Scientific Generics LimitedInventors: Michael Petty, David Fathers, Colin Nicholls, David Taylor, Valerie Scott
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Patent number: 6759602Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: John P. Miller, Sanju Ballurkar, Anthony E. Yap, Steven H. Joyce