Patents Issued in August 10, 2010
  • Patent number: PP21187
    Abstract: A new Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yomildred,’ particularly distinguished by the medium to large, white decorative-type flowers, medium size mounded habit, and a later natural season flowering response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: PP21188
    Abstract: A new Pelargonium plant named ‘Zonfiwit’, particularly distinguished by the large, round, semi-double pure white flowers, inflorescences held nicely above the foliage, dark green foliage nearly without zonation, medium vigor, and fairly tight mounding plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Theodorus Cornelis Maria van Kleinwee
  • Patent number: PP21189
    Abstract: A new Aster plant named ‘Pink Yohenry the Third’, particularly distinguished by the upright, medium size, freely branching growth habit, dark green foliage, and purple-light purple flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: PP21190
    Abstract: A new Aster plant named ‘Pink Yomagic’ particularly distinguished by the upright, freely branching growth habit, dark green colored foliage, and purple-violet colored ray florets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: PP21191
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Balserlem’, characterized by its medium yellow-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, and upright-mounded growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Linda Laughner
  • Patent number: PP21192
    Abstract: A hybrid variety of Texas bluegrass×Kentucky bluegrass as described, characterized by rapid establishment; a light green, dense turf; a wide leaf blade; aggressive rhizome growth; a reduced level of cotton on the seed; and a medium to high seed yield potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: OMS Investments, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Hardison, Jay B. Burr, James R. Frelich, George Marquez
  • Patent number: PP21193
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcanerry’, characterized by its light pink-colored flowers with throat and venation of dark red, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Jianping Ren
  • Patent number: PP21194
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcanoran’, characterized by its dark orange-colored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Jianping Ren
  • Patent number: PP21195
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcanapt’, characterized by its light orange and red bicolored flowers, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Jianping Ren
  • Patent number: PP21196
    Abstract: A new and distinct Cuphea llavea plant named ‘Vieburg’ with large, reddish-purple bicolored flowers and an upright growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Grünewald Veredelings B.V.
    Inventor: Ralf Schräder
  • Patent number: PP21197
    Abstract: A new Sutera plant named ‘Cay Juwit09’ particularly distinguished by large, white flowers, medium green foliage, medium to large sized, dentate leaves, fair branching and bushy, low mounding to trailing plant habit, initially compact, later developing to about medium size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Goldsmith Seeds Europe B.V.
    Inventor: Eric Giesen
  • Patent number: RE41477
    Abstract: An N type buried layer is formed, in one embodiment, by a non selective implant on the surface of a wafer and later diffusion. Subsequently, the wafer is masked and a selective P type buried layer is formed by implant and diffusion. The coefficient of diffusion of the P type buried layer dopant is greater than the N type buried layer dopant so that connections can be made to the P type buried layer by P wells which have a lower dopant concentration than the N buried layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: James D. Beasom
  • Patent number: RE41478
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor pellet mounted on a pellet mounting area of the main surface of a base substrate, in which first electrode pads arranged on the back of the base substrate are electrically connected to bonding pads arranged on the main surface of the semiconductor pellet. The base substrate is formed of a rigid substrate, and its first electrode pads are electrically connected to the second electrode pads arranged on its reverse side. The semiconductor pellet is mounted on the pellet mounting area of the main surface of the base substrate, with its main surface downward, and its bonding pads are connected electrically with the second electrode pads of the base substrate through bonding wires passing through slits formed in the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Kunihiko Nishi
  • Patent number: RE41479
    Abstract: A time domain communications system wherein a broadband of time-spaced signals, essentially monocycle-like signals, are derived from applying stepped-in-amplitude signals to a broadband antenna, in this case, a reverse bicone antenna. When received, the thus transmitted signals are multiplied by a D.C. replica of each transmitted signal, and thereafter, they are, successively, short time and long time integrated to achieve detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Time Domain Corporation
    Inventor: Larry W. Fullerton
  • Patent number: RE41480
    Abstract: A video display apparatus has an on-screen display pivoting function in which, even when the user arbitrarily pivots the monitor of a computer system, the on-screen display is normally displayed. An on-screen display (OSD) generating section receives horizontal/vertical synchronizing signals and clock signals, and outputs first video signals in response to OSD control signals. A pivot circuit section receives the first video signals, stores a write address of the first video signals in a position-converting manner and in correspondence with a pre-set pivot write address, and converts the write address in response to the horizontal/vertical synchronizing signals and the clock signals so as to output the first video signals in the form of second video signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Chan Kim
  • Patent number: RE41481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of composing a user menu by proving a shortened route to the menu the user selected among a hierarchically structured On Screen Display menu so that the user can find a menu he or she wants more conveniently. The method comprises the steps of deciding whether an item is optionally selected out of the hierarchically structured OSD menu items; deciding whether a user menu registration button for the optionally selected item is pressed; registering the selected menu with the user menu by adding an index to the currently selected item once the user menu registration button is properly pressed; displaying the registered user menu on an OSD menu if a user view menu is established; actuating a corresponding menu item when an optional item is selected among the user menu; and deleting a menu item from the user menu if a deletion button is pressed on an optionally selected item out of the user menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Eun Jeong Koo
  • Patent number: RE41482
    Abstract: A method for controlling a video display device having multiple signal sources, which comprises the steps of: detecting whether a synchronous signal is input to a microcomputer; detecting a signal source selection state if the synchronous signal is not input; converting a present mode to a power-saving mode if the signal source selection state indicates the computer as the selected signal source; and maintaining the present mode if the signal source selection state indicates a signal source other than the computer to be the selected signal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-Heung Oh
  • Patent number: RE41483
    Abstract: In a computer network consisting of at least one host computer and computer peripheral devices, such as scanners, fax machines, and printers, a user may use a hot key on the scanner to copy, scan, e-mail, and faxing etc. via the control of an application program. An auto-crop module implemented in the host computer can automatically crop the image of a scanned sheet. The cropped image is saved in the memory device. Before sending the cropped image to the computer peripheral devices, the computing module will compute the output format of the cropped image according to the resolution requirement and scaling factor of the associated computer peripheral device. The retained position will be also saved in the memory. In response to the user operation, the image of the scanned sheet with its retained position will be transmitted to the printer or facsimile machine via the control of the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Wei-Shu Hsu, Hsiu-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: RE41484
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) light source control method is disclosed. The light-emitting diode light source control method is used for controlling a composite and a single color LED light source. The composite color LED light source can provide two of the three original red, green and blue color lights and the single color LED light source provides the third original color. The composite and the single color LED light sources provide illuminations sequentially so that the light sources need not to be turned on continually and the data generated by the composite and the single color lights on the red, green and blue channels of image sensors can be processed sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Chen-Ho Lee, Chin-Lin Chang, Shang-Yu Yang, Kuan-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: RE41485
    Abstract: An EEPROM having a memory cell array in which electrically programmable memory cells are arranged in a matrix and each of the memory cells has three storage states, includes a plurality of data circuits for temporarily storing data for controlling write operation states of the plurality of memory cells, a write circuit for performing a write operation in accordance with the contents of the data circuits respectively corresponding to the memory cells, a write verify circuit for confirming states of the memory cells set upon the write operation, and a data updating circuit for updating the contents of the data circuits such that a rewrite operation is performed to only a memory cell, in which data is not sufficiently written, on the basis of the contents of the data circuits and the states of the memory cells set upon the write operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoharu Tanaka, Gertjan Hemink
  • Patent number: RE41486
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for generating synchronization bursts for OFDM transmission systems. The symbols of a predefined symbol sequence are mapped according to a predefined mapping scheme on subcarriers of the OFDM systems by a mapping unit (2), wherein the symbols of the predefined symbol sequence represent subcarriers of the OFDM system with nonzero amplitudes. A synchronization burst is generated by a inverse fast Fourier transforming unit (3) transforming the subcarriers of the OFDM system mapped to said predefined symbol sequence. The mapping (2) of the symbols of the predefined symbol sequence is set such that the resulting time domain signal of the synchronization burst represents a periodic nature. According to the invention the predefined symbol sequence is set such that the envelope fluctuation of the time domain signal of the synchronization burst is minimized. Therefore advantageous symbol sequences reducing said the envelope fluctuation of the time domain signal are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ralf Böhnke, Thomas Dölle, Tino Puch
  • Patent number: RE41487
    Abstract: Anonymous voice communication between a first station and a second station is facilitated by providing an interface that allows input of a transaction specification from at least one of the first and second stations. A reference code associated with the transaction is generated, there being a defined relationship between the reference code and the address of the second station for voice communication. The reference code is supplied to the first station, and a voice communication request and the reference code are received from the first station. The reference code is used to recover said address and a channel for voice communication is opened between said first and second stations. Voice communication can thereby be established between the first and second stations without providing the address of the second station to the first station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Flexiworld Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Ying Liu, William Ho Chang
  • Patent number: RE41488
    Abstract: Methods and systems for using a communication to execute a transaction with respect to an account. A communication is received on a calling line associated with a calling line number. An account number and a transaction amount are obtained from the communication. The account number corresponds to an account with respect to which a transaction is to be conducted. The transaction amount may be a number of units, a dollar amount, etc. A validation may be carried out to determine whether the caller or calling line number is authorized with respect to the conduct of the transaction. In an exemplary embodiment, a billing message is created to include the account number, the transaction amount, and the calling line number. The account number and the transaction amount from the billing message are used to execute the transaction with respect to the account corresponding to the account number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Dale W Malik
  • Patent number: RE41489
    Abstract: A method of effectively treating pain in humans is achieved by administering buprenorphinein accordance with first order kinetics over an initial three-day dosing interval, such that a maximum plasma concentration from about 20 pg/ml to about 1052 pg/ml is attained, and thereafter maintaining the administration of buprenorphine for at least an additional two-day dosing interval in accordance with substantially zero order kinetics, such that the patients experience analgesia throughout the at least two-day additional dosing interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Purdue Pharma L.P.
    Inventors: Robert F. Reder, Robert F. Kaiko, Paul D. Goldenheim
  • Patent number: RE41490
    Abstract: A method and a system for transmitting messages containing multimedia information or content that enables transmission and communication of multimedia messages between subscribers connected to telecommunication systems of different system operators. The inventive system includes a first mobile station terminal from which a multimedia message is sent, a second mobile station terminal that is the intended recipient of the multimedia message, a digital mobile network, a first multimedia message server for receiving a multimedia message from the first mobile station terminal, a first address database associated with the first multimedia message server, a second multimedia message server for receiving the multimedia message from the first multimedia message server, an IP network for carrying communications between the first and second multimedia message servers, and a second address database associated with the second multimedia message server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Sami Ala-Luukko, Jussi Koski
  • Patent number: RE41491
    Abstract: This invention discloses (20S)-1?-hydroxy-2-methylene-19-nor-bishomopregnacalciferol and pharmaceutical uses therefor. This compound exhibits pronounced activity in arresting the proliferation of undifferentiated cells and inducing their differentiation to the monocyte thus evidencing use as an anti-cancer agent and for the treatment of skin diseases such as psoriasis as well as skin conditions such as wrinkles, slack skin, dry skin and insufficient sebum secretion. This compound also has little, if any, calcemic activity and therefore may be used to treat immune disorders in humans as well as renal osteodystrophy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Hector F. DeLuca, Lori A. Plum, Margaret Clagett-Dame
  • Patent number: RE41492
    Abstract: A traffic information distribution system includes a distribution device for synthesizing pieces of traffic information supplied from a traffic information center, an output device for outputting pieces of traffic information distributed from the distribution device, and a data communicator that is connected to the output device and that can communicate with the distribution device in a bidirectional manner. The distribution device responds to a request signal transmitted from the output device via the data communicator, effectively synthesizes the pieces of traffic information in consideration not only of a request made by a user, recognizability at the time of output, a state of a map on a display screen and a range of the map, but also of various factors in which actual road conditions are reflected. The pieces of the traffic information that have been synthesized are distributed via the data communicator to the output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Mori, Masayuki Yurimoto
  • Patent number: RE41493
    Abstract: A system and method for creating audiovisual programming has media elements, such as audiovisual clips, stored in a library. A database contains selected information about each of the media elements. The stored information in the database does not dictate the temporal sequence of the media elements. Media elements are selected in response to a request for media programming, and arranged in a temporal organization. A user does not select the individual media elements or their temporal organization. Transitions between audiovisual clips are determined by the system based on information stored in the database and predetermined preferences as to types of transitions. Transition information includes a variety of possible transition points in an individual clip, capable of selection by the system. Separate transitions for the audio and video portions of audiovisual clips may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: NTech Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Dwight Marcus
  • Patent number: RE41494
    Abstract: An improved extended cardbus/PC card controller (20) incorporating proprietary Split-Bridge™ high speed serial communication technology for interconnecting a conventional parallel system bus via a high speed serial link with a remote peripheral device. The extend cardbus/PC card controller is adapted to interface the parallel system bus, which may be PCI, PCMCIA, integrated, or some other parallel I/O bus architecture, with peripheral devices via PC cards, and now optionally via a high speed serial link using the proprietary serial Split-Bridge™ technology. The serial Split-Bridge™ technology provides real time interconnection between the parallel system bus and the remote device which may also be based on a parallel system data bus architecture, over a serial link, which serial link appears to be transparent between the buses and thus facilitates high speed data transfer exceeding data rates of 1.0 GigaHertz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Frank W. Ahern, Doss Jeff, Charles Mollo
  • Patent number: RE41495
    Abstract: An information storage device (10) includes a cartridge (14) removably inserted into a cradle (13) that has a drive module (18) releasably coupled to an interface module (17). The interface module can be operatively coupled by a cable (12) to a remote system. Communications through the cable conform to an industry-standard protocol. The storage device can receive power from either the cable or an external power source (31). The interface module can detect a change in the source of its operating power during normal system operation, and ensure that this is reported through the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: William P. Baker, Todd R. Shelton, Theodore Smith
  • Patent number: RE41496
    Abstract: A boundary-scan circuit method and apparatus for asserting an internal reset signal connected to core logic circuits of an electronic device in order to assure that testing will begin and end in a safe, known logic state. A safe end state is assured even if the system reset signal on an input pin of the electronic device is logically disconnected from the internal reset connection to the core logic, as often occurs in boundary-scan and related testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: David L. Simpson, Thomas L. Langford, II
  • Patent number: RE41497
    Abstract: A transmission process of control data is carried out simply and the reliability of transmission of the control data is improved. Data transmission among a plurality of communication stations is performed with a predetermined packet arrangement and transmission of the control data from a control station or a communication station is performed with the same predetermined packet arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: RE41498
    Abstract: A channel coding device is disclosed. In the device, a bit inserter inserts known bits in an input data bit stream at predetermined positions. A channel coder codes the bit-inserted data bit stream to generate coded symbols. A rate matcher matches a rate of the coded symbols to a given channel symbol rate. A channel interleaver interleaves the rate matched channel symbols. The rate matcher includes a puncturer for puncturing the inserted known bits included in the coded symbols when the coded symbol rate is higher than the given channel symbol rate. The rate matcher includes a repeater for repeating the coded symbols to match the coded symbol rate to the given channel symbol rate when the coded symbol rate is lower than the given channel symbol rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chang-Soo Park, Hyeon-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: RE41499
    Abstract: An error correcting apparatus includes a storing means for storing product code with n2 rows and n1 columns, an error correcting unit 5 that performs error correction for four code sequences simultaneously in parallel, and a bus control unit 2 for reading codes on four rows from the buffer memory 1 and transferring the codes to the error correcting unit 5. The bus control unit 2 reads and transfers four consecutive codes on each of four rows in order before shifting the reading position by four codes in the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Fumio Nakatsuji, Yuichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: RE41500
    Abstract: Input to the system is buffered by the forms manager to determine access to the tile/region and to check entered data. The tile/region will retain various information such as data entered, user, time, changes, etc. To display a form, the forms manager obtains a list of objects to be displayed. This list of objects is then edited to remove objects which are not utilized and to place the remaining objects in a prioritized order. The forms manager then generates the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Eclipsys Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Edward Shelton, Ronald Evan Norden-Paul, Audree Anne Thurman, Stanley Carl Person
  • Patent number: 7770233
    Abstract: The invention comprises an energy absorbing and/or spreading garment for protection against an impact or a fall, the garment including an inner layer (2), an outer layer (1), a plurality of arcuate panels (3,4,5) housed between the inner layer (2) and the outer layer (1) of the garment, and wherein each panel (3,4,5) is arranged to overlap at least one adjacent panel in sliding relationship with the at least one adjacent panel. Impacts from falling off a horse or being kicked by a horse will cause the panels (3,4,5) to deform, spreading the energy of the impact. The panels (3,4,5) to deform, spreading the energy of the impact. The panels (3,4,5) also slide against each other further spreading the force of the impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Thomas Rex Haskell
  • Patent number: 7770234
    Abstract: A garment for protecting at least the upper portion of the body. The garment includes a sleeveless vest to cover the torso and made of a thermally insulating and ventilated material, and a short jacket with sleeves, such as a bolero-type jacket, covering only the upper portion of the torso and made of an impermeable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Salomon S.A.S.
    Inventors: Isabelle Roux, Pascal Lenormand, Catherine Fellouhe, John Joseph Collier, Markus Rindle
  • Patent number: 7770235
    Abstract: An improved fishing wader uses light weight nylon faced laminate material and taped unsewn sonic welds to achieve a durable, light weight, comfortable wader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: The Orvis Company, Inc.
    Inventors: James B. Lepage, Megan E. Babcock, Michael S. Quartararo
  • Patent number: 7770236
    Abstract: A detachable collar is provided. The collar is useful in association with a garment including a permanent collar. The detachable collar includes a collar body which includes a front side, a back side, and an interfacing layer. The collar body may be substantially trapezoidal, and variable in length. The collar body also includes a left pocket and a right pocket, which engage the permanent collar. The pockets are located on the back side of the collar body. The detachable collar also includes at least one fastener coupled to the collar body. The fasteners may be located at the base and on the back side of the collar body. The fasteners may be configured to engage the permanent collar, or a collarless garment along the neckline. The fasteners may include a pin and a cap. The pin pierces the permanent collar, and the cap in turn engages the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Lori Gulisano
  • Patent number: 7770237
    Abstract: A baby garment for accessing and protecting the umbilical cord for allowing the cleaning of and protecting a baby's umbilical cord. The baby garment for accessing and protecting the umbilical cord includes includes a piece of material having front and back portions and also having an umbilical-exposing hole being disposed through the front portion and about the baby's umbilical cord to allow a user to effectively clean the umbilical cord without the user having to remove the baby garment from the baby, and an oversized cover being hingedly attached to the front portion and being fastenably closeable and loosely disposed over the umbilical cord to effectively protect and not to irritate the umbilical cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Andre L. Wright, Tracy L. Wright
  • Patent number: 7770238
    Abstract: A necktie is disclosed having a knot, the knot having a channel. The necktie has a unitary band, the band being a separate material from the knot. The band has two circumferential segments, each segment being threaded through the channel. Each segment of the band is capable of sliding within the channel. The band is without a clasp on the back outer surface of the knot. The necktie has an elastic textile fabric, within the knot, that is capable of restraining the motion of the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Edward Dayan
  • Patent number: 7770239
    Abstract: A suspension system and chin strap assembly for a helmet including two downwardly extending top straps; strap adjusters coupled proximate the end portions of each top strap; a helmet attachment means coupled to each of the top straps; a headband coupled to each of the top straps; a front strap that is adjustably coupled to a first front strap adjuster and a second front strap adjuster; a nape pillow pad is coupled to the front strap, and a portion of a quick release buckle and a strap ring are slideably coupled to the front strap; a chin strap coupled to the quick release buckle and a strap ring; and a back strap that is adjustably coupled to a first back strap adjuster and a second back strap adjuster and attached to a nape pillow pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Blackhawk Industries Product Group Unlimited LLC
    Inventors: Marty Goldman, Fredrick W. Storms, Jr., Eric M. Yeates, Thomas A. Marx
  • Patent number: 7770240
    Abstract: The connection of a breathing mask to a safety helmet provides increased wearing comfort. A fastening mount (12) with circular arc-shaped inner contour (14) is provided, and the bracket for the breathing mask has a projection corresponding thereto. The projection is in contact with the inner contour (14) of the fastening mount (12), so that the bracket is displaceable in relation to the fastening mount (12) in a rotatingly movable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Manfred Gdulla, Michael Rosert, Dirk Feil, Siegbert Tolk
  • Patent number: 7770241
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sewer system including a sewage receptacle, sewer piping connected to the sewage receptacle by means of a discharge valve, a mechanism for generating vacuum in the sewer piping, and a control mechanism for controlling the discharge valve. In order to achieve a more rapid closing of the discharge valve after discharge of the sewage from the sewage receptacle, the vacuum sewer system further comprises an aeration device in direct fluid communication with the discharge valve. The control mechanism is arranged to control the aeration device. Also disclosed is a discharge valve (2) for such a vacuum sewer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Evac International Oy
    Inventors: Vesa Lappalainen, Gunnar Lindroos, Kaj Ronnblad
  • Patent number: 7770242
    Abstract: A collapsible potty comprises a one piece, rigid seat with a central hole through it. A pair of opposed tracks on the seat lower surface extend from front to rear. Left and right support panels are pivotally attached, by means of support hinge knuckles, to seat hinge knuckles on the seat left and right ends, respectively. Hinge pins engage hinge holes in the knuckles. The support panels are able to pivot from a folded position adjacent the seat lower surface, to an open position extending downward. A flexible, sealable waste bag hangs beneath the seat to receive waste. A tray has a plurality of hooks, arrayed around a central hole, that engage holes in the waste bag. The tray slides into the seat tracks to position the tray central hole directly beneath the seat central hole. A zip-lock closure seals the waste bag. A resilient locking arm on the seat hinge knuckle expands into a notch in the support hinge knuckle when the support panel is rotated into the open position, to hold the support panel open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Timothy L. Sell
  • Patent number: 7770243
    Abstract: A shower curtain-rod assembly is arranged to have distinct and structurally separate gravitational and torsional load bearing capabilities. The shower curtain may be formed with folded pockets to receive shower curtain stays. The pockets are made by creating overlapping layers of the shower curtain and then ultrasonically welding the overlapping layers together. The shower curtain-rod assembly includes a shower rod having an internal track, a shower ring coupled to a shower curtain stay, and rollers supported on the internal track and coupled to the stay. The internal track generally supports the weight of the shower curtain, the rollers, the stays, and the shower ring. In one embodiment, a channel formed in an outer wall of the shower rod cooperates with a torsional restraint tab extending from an inner surface of the shower ring, which is located over the shower rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Robert W. Wise
  • Patent number: 7770244
    Abstract: A soap-dispensing faucet structure comprises an upright cylindrical faucet body, having a spout extending outwards at the front side, and a tube seat at one side of the lower section to which a core shaft, a locking cap, and a faucet handle are sequentially mounted thereto. The upper section of the faucet has an appropriate-depth receiving chamber to which a sleeve cover and a pump device are combined to form an individual soap-receiving accommodation space. The lower section of the faucet has a set of cold and hot water ducts and an outlet tube that are fluidly connected to the core shaft of the tube seat to provide another individual water-discharging chamber linked to the spout to form a water influx-and-outflow circuit to be switched on and off by the faucet handle, providing a concise and whole depth-extending visual effect, and easier assembly and maintenance of the soap-dispensing faucet thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Pony Sanitary Ware Industrial Corporation
    Inventor: Jackson B Yeh
  • Patent number: 7770245
    Abstract: The playard includes a frame body and a bassinet detachably mounted on the frame body. An opening and a cover that covers onto the opening are configured at the bottom panel of the bassinet. When the cover opens relative to the opening, a folding device at the bottom of the frame body can be operated by a user's hand sticking into the opening for folding the playard to a smaller size without the need of removing the bassinet. A height adjustment device is further configured on the side panels of the bassinet for adjusting the height of the bassinet by selectively setting the bassinet in a first using state that has a shallow depth or in a second using state that has a deep depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Wonderland NurseryGoods Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenny Cheng, Shun-Min Chen, Nan-Gui Bu
  • Patent number: 7770246
    Abstract: A foldable bed having a frame and a cover attached to the frame. The frame has two handles, two identical side beams each having a pair of groove beams pivotally connected to one of the handles, connectors and bars pivotally connected to the handles or the connectors. The foldable bed is able to be folded by a simple action of pulling the handle upward meanwhile stepping on the peddling member. And it is able to be expanded by a simple action of breaking off the two groove beams with two hands of a user. Furthermore, the foldable bed occupies relatively small storing space when folded since a width of the folded bed is much shorter than that of the expanded one's.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Libin Chen
  • Patent number: 7770247
    Abstract: An arm is pivotally coupled to a support structure at one end and a patient care equipment support, such as a service head, is pivotally coupled to the arm at the other end. The arm has a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion for extension and retraction relative to the first portion. Brakes are provided to brake the extension and retraction of the portions of the arm, to brake the pivoting movement of the arm relative to the support structure, and to brake the pivoting movement of the patient care equipment support relative to the arm. Each of the brakes is releasable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David P. Lubbers, Paul R. Weil, D. Scott Manlove, Brian J. Hoffman, Christian H. Reinke, Jonathan D. Turner, Stephen R. Hamberg