Patents Issued in August 10, 2010
  • Patent number: 7772452
    Abstract: A process for recovery of the silica present in the separators located between the elements of lead-acid batteries characterized in that it comprises the following operations: a) washing the heavy plastics to remove the lead compounds and other foreign bodies, b) separating the plastics from the washing solution, c) lead recovery and regeneration of the washing solution, d) rinsing of the plastics, e) drying of the plastics, f) separation of the granular plastics from the thin plastics (polyethylene with silica filler, PVC, fabrics) by drawing them up in a flow of air making use of the shape effect, g) separation of the PVC and fabrics from the polyethylene with silica filler through fragmentation, h) pyrolysis of the polyethylene with silica filler, i) cracking of the pyrolysis gases and vapours in order to reduce their molecular weight and render them more suitable for handling and combustion to provide the heat necessary for pyrolysis, j) oxidation of the pyrolysis residue to remove carbonaceous residues a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Millbrook Lead Recycling Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Giovanni Modica
  • Patent number: 7772453
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method and a system for the complete recycling of municipal solid wastes with minimal environmental impact and with the exploitation of the wasted solid recovery fuel (WSRF) for the production of electric energy and/or hydrogen. Those results are achieved by means of the gasification of the WSRF in a reactor where the volatile and the inorganic components are combusted separately thus allowing contemporary the further treatment of the synthesised gas and the recovery of mineral and metallic molten granulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sorain Cecchini Ambiente SCA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Manlio Cerroni
  • Patent number: 7772454
    Abstract: A wound treatment device comprising a water-impermeable envelope having at least one aperture. The envelope contains a therapeutic substance. The at least one aperture in the envelope is blocked by a material that breaks down in the presence of one or more active components of wound fluid thereby permitting the therapeutic substance to contact the wound fluid. Preferably, the aperture is blocked by a material that is a substrate for an enzyme present in would fluid, such as a protease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Systagenix Wound Management (U.S.), Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah Addison, Alicia J. Essler, Breda M. Cullen, Derek W. Silcock
  • Patent number: 7772455
    Abstract: A disposable article adapted to receive bodily exudates which provides improved management of such bodily exudates by including an effective amount of one or more agents which act to modify the physical properties of feces or other bodily wastes which may be deposited in the article, or by including one or more compositions such as the aforesaid one or more agents which enhance the removability of bodily waste, such as feces, from the skin of the article's wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald C. Roe, Nicholas A. Ahr, Christopher P. Bewick-Sonntag, Mattias Schmidt, Oliver E. C. Mason, Stephen A. Goldman, David Joseph Kenneth Goulait
  • Patent number: 7772456
    Abstract: An article comprises a stretchable absorbent composite (30) that includes a quantity of superabsorbent particles (32) which are operatively contained within a matrix of elastomeric polymer fibers (34). In particular aspects, the composite article can include at least about 60 wt % of the superabsorbent particles and not more than about 40 wt % of the elastomeric polymer fibers, based on a total weight of the composite. In other aspects, the composite article can provide a high stretchability. Additional aspects can provide a low shake-out. Particular configurations can, for example, provide a stretchability value of at least about 30%. Additional aspects can include a configuration that provides a shake-out value of not more than about 2%. In further aspects, the absorbent composite can include superabsorbent particles having a coating of treatment-material that is thermally processible. Additional aspects can include a treatment-material which is water soluble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Zhang, David Martin Jackson, Lisa Marie Jacobsen, Jian Qin, Dave Allen Soerens
  • Patent number: 7772457
    Abstract: A pair of rollers 2 and 3 are provided to be opposed to each other with a predetermined distance wherein at least one of the rollers 2 and 3 is a press print processing roller 2 that has a plurality of processing projections 2a with a predetermined layout on a circumference surface, and a stripe-shaped absorbent body base 1 including an absorbent element 7 obtained by mixing at least pulp 8 with super absorbent polymer 9 is sent and transferred between the pair of rollers 2 and 3 so that at least one surface of the absorbent body base 1 has a plurality of linear pattern elements 1a provided by being squeezed by the processing projections 2a, so as to have a groove-like shape when seen from the top, and are individually spaced from one another and dispersed in a staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji Ohtsuka, Isao Mori
  • Patent number: 7772458
    Abstract: A nonhuman transgenic mammal is described whose genome comprises a promoter construct operably linked to a heterologous DNA encoding an epithelial sodium channel ? subunit, wherein said promoter construct directs expression of the epithelial sodium channel ? subunit in lung epithelial cells of said animal, and wherein said transgenic mammal has increased lung mucus retention as compared to the corresponding wild-type mammal. The animal is useful in screening compounds for activity in treating lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Richard C. Boucher, Jr., Wanda O'Neal, Barbara Grubb, Marcus Mall
  • Patent number: 7772459
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of proteins and other substances of interest in saliva of transgenic animals, particularly in mammals that produce large quantities of saliva, particularly monogastric ruminants, and ovine, caprine and bovine mammals. Preferred embodiments of the invention relate in particular to the production of foreign and modified proteins in the transgenic saliva of these animals, including particularly human fibrinogen, human prothrombin and human thrombin, among others. The invention relates as well to methods, devices, genetic constructs and to transgenic constructs for making the proteins and other substances of interest, to novel saliva and saliva-derived compositions, novel products from the saliva, and to uses of the saliva, saliva-derived compositions and novel products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Bellweather Farms
    Inventor: Jeffrey P. Erickson
  • Patent number: 7772461
    Abstract: It is to provide a novel molybdenum ion transporter MoTR1 gene responsible for molybdenum transport for the first time in plants, enabling to promote effectively molybdenum absorption from the environment or molybdenum transport in vivo. By QTL analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Col-0 and Ler, it was found that QTL which dominates Mo concentration in leaves was present on the chromosome No: 2. In the present invention, the region in which the causal gene is present was limited to 172 kb, by a genetic analysis. In the region, the gene At2g25680 having a domain common to sulfate ion transporter, while its function is not revealed was present. Thus, knockout strains of 2 separate lines in which a foreign gene fragment (T-DNA) was introduced at At2g25680 were obtained, Mo concentration in leaves was measured, and MoTR1 gene was identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Toru Fujiwara, Junpei Takano, Hajime Tomatsu
  • Patent number: 7772462
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of imparting virus resistance to plants. In one aspect, this method involves silencing a gene encoding a translation initiation factor eIF4E in the plant. In another aspect, this method involves overexpressing a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E in a plant. The present invention further relates to a genetic construct containing a nucleic acid molecule encoding a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E, as well as to an expression system containing the genetic construct and a host cell transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants, seeds, and plant parts transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E that is effective in imparting virus resistance in plants. The present invention also relates to a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E and a method for making the mutant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret M. Jahn, Byoung-Cheorl Kang
  • Patent number: 7772463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition, the present invention concerns means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. These types of plant cells and plants synthesize a modified starch. Therefore, the present invention also concerns the starches synthesized from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, methods for manufacturing these starches, and the manufacture of starch derivatives of these modified starches, as well as flours containing starches according to the invention. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to nucleic acids, coding starch-phosphorylating OK1 proteins, vectors, host cells, plant cells, and plants containing such nucleic acid molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Claus Frohberg, Oliver Koetting, Gerhard Ritte, Martin Steup
  • Patent number: 7772464
    Abstract: The invention provides alfalfa plants having adaptation, productivity, winterhardiness, and disease resistance with high levels of somatic embryogenesis. Plants and plant parts of the invention are useful in the efficient development of transgenic alfalfa plants with adaptation, productivity, winterhardiness, and disease resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Cal/West Seeds
    Inventors: Jay M. Sandman, David W. Johnson, Lauren D. Johnson, Mark E. Darling, Jonathan M. Reich
  • Patent number: 7772465
    Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi, Cao Guo Yu
  • Patent number: 7772466
    Abstract: A barley cultivar, designated Pronghorn, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of barley cultivar Pronghorn, to the plants of barley Pronghorn, and to methods for producing a barley plant produced by crossing barley cultivar Pronghorn with itself or another barley variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a barley plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic barley plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to barley varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from barley cultivar Pronghorn, to methods for producing other barley varieties, lines or plant parts derived from barley cultivar Pronghorn, and to the barley plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid barley seeds and plants produced by crossing barley cultivar Pronghorn with another barley cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Westbred LLC
    Inventor: Gregory J Fox
  • Patent number: 7772467
    Abstract: A novel inbred maize variety designated PHF3P and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHF3P with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHF3P through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHF3P or a trait conversion of PHF3P with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHF3P, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHF3P and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Elliott Piper
  • Patent number: 7772468
    Abstract: A novel inbred maize variety designated PHC55 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHC55 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHC55 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHC55 or a trait conversion of PHC55 with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHC55, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHC55 and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Khusi Ram Tiwari, Mitchell Brett Callaway
  • Patent number: 7772469
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH379824. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH379824, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH379824 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH379824.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Fufa H. Birru
  • Patent number: 7772470
    Abstract: A self-contained, surface-mount guitar tremolo is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes a surface-mount base plate; a plurality of individually adjustable string fingers attached to the base plate; side plates attached to the base plate; a first pivot roller attached to the side plates; a second pivot roller attached to the side plates; a rocker attached to the second pivot roller; and a spring preload adjuster attached to the rocker, the spring preload adjuster including a plurality of springs attached at one end to the base plate and attached at a second end to the spring preload adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: Raymond Thomas Olsen
  • Patent number: 7772471
    Abstract: In order to allow a two-sided instrument case to also serve as a stand for guitars and the like, when the case is in its open position, a flat plate having a central notch in one end is adapted to be supported between the open case side so it is closely spaced relative to the hinge which joins the case sides. When the case is moved to the closed position, the plate may either be removed for storage in the case with the instrument, or may be alternatively positioned so that it may be folded into a closed position within the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: James M. Bustamante
  • Patent number: 7772472
    Abstract: In a fipple flute, an instrument body includes an outer surface defining an interior resonating cavity. An airway extends from the outer surface into the resonating cavity and includes an adaptor which joins a brass instrument mouthpiece with a fipple flute. The tone produced from the brass instrument mouthpiece along with the separate tone generated by the fipple whistle allows the player the ability to create new sounds and harmonies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: David Paul Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 7772473
    Abstract: The claimed device is a drum rim extension. Previously, drummers playing cross-stick, (that is, laying the stick across the rim of the drum to produce a clicking or tapping sound), had difficulty maintaining a good grip on the drumstick and finding a consistent sound throughout performances. The drum rim extension is a block of metal, wood or plastic that connects to a portion of the rim of and drum and provides the player up to several inches of free space above the drum, improving stick handling and playing consistency. The drum rim extension improves drumming where rim playing is prominent in musical pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: James F. Shepherd
  • Patent number: 7772474
    Abstract: A keyboard device is designed for use in an electronic musical instrument. A plurality of keys including white keys and black keys are arranged on a keyboard frame. Supporting parts are mounted on the keyboard frame for supporting the keys pivotably downward and upward. The supporting parts include white key supporting parts to support the white keys and black key supporting parts to support the black keys. The supporting parts are positioned at the rear portions of the keys such that the black key supporting parts are arranged rearward relative to the white key supporting parts. The keyboard frame supports an anti-floating part which extends across the rear portions of the keys and positioned above the supporting parts of the keys so as to prevent the rear portion of the key from floating upward when the front portion of the key is pressed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Ichiro Osuga
  • Patent number: 7772475
    Abstract: A main body 10 having a keyboard operated with player's hands is supported on both sides thereof by stand portions 22, 24. To the lower end of the stand portions 22, 24, a fixed unit 52 is fixed. On the fixed unit 52, a moving unit 60 is mounted so that the moving unit 60 can move frontward and backward. On the moving unit 60, a pedal 62 operated with a player's foot is mounted. Separately from the keyboard operated with the hands, as a result, the player is allowed to adjust his desired front-back directional position of the pedal 62.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Nakata
  • Patent number: 7772476
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for visualizing the rhythmic structure of musical compositions. Circular symmetry and geometric shapes are utilized to visualize representations of rhythmic structures about a central axis. In general, lower frequency rhythm instruments are represented by small geometric shapes, while relatively higher frequency instruments are represented by shapes of larger diameter. The visualizations can be presented in two or three dimensions and may incorporate the use of animation. The result is a graphical representation that is more intuitive and entertaining than traditional music notation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Master Key, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Lemons
  • Patent number: 7772477
    Abstract: An electronic music apparatus has a sound generator for generating a music sound signal according to music data and a display device for displaying information associated with music data. In the electronic music apparatus, a storage medium stores a plurality of music data files, each being written with music data for use in generating the music sound signal. An information retention section retains file information for use in displaying a name or an icon of the respective music data. A reading command section issues a command of reading out a target music data file from the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7772478
    Abstract: There are disclosed methods and apparatus for understanding music. A classifier machine may be trained for each of a plurality of selected terms using a first plurality of music samples. The classifier machines may then be tested using a second plurality of music samples. The results from testing the classifier machines may then be used to select a plurality of semantic basis function from the selected terms. A semantic basis classifier machine may then be trained for each semantic basis function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Brian A. Whitman, Barry Vercoe
  • Patent number: 7772479
    Abstract: The recommended playlist creating section generates several recommended candidate playlists having different reproduction orders as recommended candidate playlists each indicating a recommended reproduction order when one or more contents are sequentially reproduced. The evaluating section evaluates how each of the recommended candidate playlist is close to the ideal fluctuation stored in the ideal fluctuation storing section. The recommended playlist creating section selects a recommended playlist from among the recommended candidate playlists based on a result of evaluation by the evaluating section. This present invention is applicable to a content reproducing unit having a playlist creating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7772480
    Abstract: A music training and entertainment system allows a user to input a selection of source music in a native format, and isolates a desired vocal or instrument component within the source music. The user selects the component of the source music against which to be compared. The system suppresses the non-selected components of the source content to isolate the user-selected component. The system receives user input corresponding to the isolated component, and matches the user's performance to the original performance on the basis of pitch, rhythm, and quality comparisons. In a graphical user interface, avatars representing the user and judges are displayed in relation to an audience. Audience reaction is configured to reflect a score obtained by the user. A lyric extraction and generation process displays lyrics to a song in real time to the user as the music track is played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: SonicJam, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward W. Brennan
  • Patent number: 7772481
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for simulating the sound of an acoustic percussion instrument. A first stored waveform signal representative of the impulse response of an acoustic percussion instrument is convolved with a waveform produced by a sensor circuit attached to a physical playing surface. Undesirable response characteristics of the playing surface and sensor circuit may be filtered out by deconvolving sensor output, or the stored waveform representing the acoustic instrument, with the impulse response of the combination of the playing surface and the sensor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Roberto M. Aimi
  • Patent number: 7772482
    Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a performance operation portion that is operated by fingers of a performer, a contact portion that is adapted to be brought into contact with a lower lip of the performer, a contact pressure detection portion that detects the contact pressure at which the lower lip is brought into contact with the contact portion, and generates a pressure value in accordance with the detected contact pressure, and a control portion that specifies sound of a pitch in accordance with an operation status of the performance operation portion and changes the pitch of the sound in accordance with the pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Koichiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 7772483
    Abstract: An immersion thermocouple is described. The immersion thermocouple includes a heat resistant sheathing, the interior of which is substantially filled with a heat resistant cement, a first U-shaped tube enclosing a thermocouple fixed in the heat resistant cement, and a second U-shaped tube fixed in the heat resistant cement. The second U-shaped tube bridges the first U-shaped tube at an angle of approximately ninety degrees. The immersion thermocouple also includes a shield circumferentially surrounding the first and the second U-shaped tubes proximate to where the first and the second U-shaped tubes are fixed to the heat resistant cement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Heraeus Electro-Nite International N.V.
    Inventors: John Cassidy, Thomas A. Nordon, Jr., Thomas C. Coleman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7772484
    Abstract: Modules are disclosed. The modules can include a first photovoltaic cell including an electrode, a second photovoltaic cell including an electrode, and an interconnect disposed in the electrode of the first photovoltaic cell and disposed in the electrode of the second photovoltaic cell so that the electrode of the first photovoltaic cell and the electrode of the second photovoltaic cell are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Konarka Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lian Li, Alan Montello, Edmund Montello, Russell Gaudiana
  • Patent number: 7772485
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a polymer containing a first comonomer repeat unit and a second comonomer repeat unit different from the first comonomer repeat unit. The first comonomer repeat unit includes a cyclopentadithiophene moiety. The polymer can be used as a photoactive material in a photovoltaic cell. This disclosure also relates to such photovoltaic cells, as well as modules containing such photovoltaic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Konarka Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Gaudiana, Richard Kingsborough, David Waller, Zhengguo Zhu
  • Patent number: 7772486
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photovoltaic device capable of keeping reduction of the yield in modularization in check. This photovoltaic device comprises a transparent conductive film, and a collector which is formed on the surface of the transparent conductive film so as to be in partial contact with a semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nakashima, Eiji Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7772487
    Abstract: A photovoltaic apparatus may comprise two or more energy transfer layers and an acceptor layer. The energy transfer layers are configured such that excitons formed by absorption of radiation in one energy transfer layer transfer to an adjacent energy transfer layer that is closer to the acceptor layer by a dipole mechanism without the exciton diffusing to an interface between the two energy transfer layers. This can be achieved by appropriately configuring the HOMO and LUMO (or conduction and valence band) levels of the energy transfer layers and the acceptor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Nanosolar, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew R. Robinson
  • Patent number: 7772488
    Abstract: The present invention provides a case assembly structure of an electronic device. The case assembly structure includes a first case, a second case and a heat-dissipating element. The first case has an engaging hole and a first opening. The second case has an engaging element engaged with the engaging hole of the first case and a second opening aligned with the first opening of the first case. The heat-dissipating element includes a fastening hole aligned with the first opening of the first case and the second opening of the second case. The first case, the second case and the heat-dissipating element are combined together by penetrating a fastening element through the first opening, the second opening and the fastening hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Hung-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 7772489
    Abstract: A network cabinet is provided includes a base member, two pairs of vertical frame rail members connected to the base member, and a top cover supported by at least one of the vertical frame rail members. The base member defines an opening and another opening is defined in the top cover. The vertical frame rail members are positioned spaced apart from four sidewalls from four corners of the cabinet formed by the four sidewalls, where each sidewall includes a panel or a door. The two pairs of vertical frame rail members and the four sidewalls define at least one cable management pathway and at least a portion of the cable management pathway is vertically aligned with at least a portion of the opening of the base member and the opening of the top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Samuel J. Adducci, Christopher A. Dybek, Bruce R. Appino, Max W. Hibner, Michael J. McGrath
  • Patent number: 7772490
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical device (1), especially for a motor vehicle. Said device comprises an electrical component (2) and a connecting cable (5) which is connected to the component (2) and is surrounded by a sheathing (8), the end (9) of said sheathing being at a distance from the component (2). The sheath end (9) and the respectively connected regions (13, 14) of the sheathing (8) and the connecting cable (5) comprise a sealing coating (16). The aim of the invention is to improve the sealing and to increase the durability thereof. To this end, another section (10) of the sheathing (8), embodied in a sleeve-shaped manner, is arranged between the sheath end (9) and the component (2), and the coating (16) extends over a sleeve end (11) facing the sheath end (9) and over the region (17) of the sleeve-shaped section (10) of the sheathing (8) connected thereto. The invention also relates to a method for producing one such device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens VDO Automotive AG
    Inventor: Harry Skarpil
  • Patent number: 7772491
    Abstract: In a structure of interconnection fitting of division protectors fittingly interconnected to form a harness protector, the division protectors have interconnection fitting portions at their end portions. Retaining projections are formed at one of the interconnection fitting portions which are to be fittingly interconnected, and elastic retaining arms are formed at the other interconnection fitting portion. The elastic retaining arm is so formed as to produce an urging force outwardly in a widthwise direction which is generally perpendicular to a fitting/disconnecting direction and also to a longitudinal direction. Elastic deformation limitation walls for limiting elastic deformation of the elastic retaining arm are formed near respectively to the retaining projection and the elastic retaining arm so as to abut against each other upon movement in a predetermined amount in the widthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Seiji Ito
  • Patent number: 7772492
    Abstract: Unitary multiple conductor electrical cables, such as electrical power cords, are disclosed. Multiple conductor electrical cables are insulated with one or more layers of a thermoplastic polymer composition. The outer layer of the thermoplastic polymer composition contains an anti-microbial agent that resists biological contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Walter Brian Parsons, Jimmy Dale Hunter
  • Patent number: 7772493
    Abstract: An electrical winding conductor (1) with a rectangular cross section is specified in order to produce an electrical winding for electrical appliances which contain a liquid, which is used as a coolant and in which the winding is immersed in the in-use position. In order to improve the cooling, raised areas (2) composed of insulating material are fitted at a distance from one another on at least one side of the winding conductor (1), over its entire length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Essex Europe
    Inventor: Dipl.-Ing.Siegbert Tillner
  • Patent number: 7772494
    Abstract: A telecommunications cable having a cable jacket defining an elongate cable core, a conductor assembly comprising four twisted pairs of conductors disposed along the core and parallel elongate distensions formed on an inner surface of the cable jacket. The distensions are spaced about an inner surface of the cable jacket and prevent the conductor assembly from coming into contact with the inner surface. The distensions can be the result of a series of filler elements placed between the cable jacket and the cable core and which wind helicoidally along and about the cable core. A separator spline has first and second elongate dividing strips having a substantially H shaped cross section and arranged side by side. The spline twists helicoidally along its length. The separator spline and the insulation surrounding the twisted pairs of conductors can be manufactured form a material having the same dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Belden Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavriel Vexler, Galen Gareis
  • Patent number: 7772495
    Abstract: A wire cable of electric conductor forming of multiple metals or alloys includes single (bundle) wire cable or double (bundle) wire cables, in which at least in one bundle of electric conductor, each bundle of electric conductor is composed of slim electric wire made by two or more than two metals or alloys, which is covered by insulator to form a wire cable of electric conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventors: Jeng-Shyong Wu, Li-Wen Liu, Woi-Jen Liu
  • Patent number: 7772496
    Abstract: A flat cable in which at least end portions of a plurality of coaxial cables are securely arranged in parallel on a sheet is characterized in that a flat cable edge-machined portion for electric connection of the coaxial cables is formed at the end portion of the plurality of coaxial cables, and a part of the sheet is made to remain in a band shape across an entire width of the flat cable between a machined edge portion of the edge-machined portion and a distal end of the flat cable, and a jacket of the coaxial cable is secured to the band-shaped sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Junkosha
    Inventor: Daisuke Morijiri
  • Patent number: 7772497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission electric wire comprising a plurality of conductor strands covered in at least one insulating covering including PTFE, the plurality of strands comprising an inner core of first strands covered by at least one outer layer of second strands, said first and second strands being constituted of different metals, the metal of said second conductor strands presenting hardness that is lower than that of the metal of said first conductors, and said first strands being constituted essentially by an alloy of copper and said second strands being constituted essentially of copper. According to the invention, said alloy is a homogeneous copper alloy in the alpha phase that is stable at a temperature less than or equal to 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: Pascal Clouet, Jean-Pierre Ferlier, Louis Salvat
  • Patent number: 7772498
    Abstract: A wire fixing portion (17) is so formed with a slit (24) as to minimize a tightening diameter at the wire fixing portion (17) by narrowing the slit (24). Thus, there is no likelihood of displacing a fixing band (25) fastened to a middle part of the wire fixing portion (17) toward a side where the tightening diameter is larger. Accordingly, displacements of the fixing band (25) relative to the wire fixing portion (17) are restricted, wherefore displacements of the wires (W) relative to the wire fixing portion (17) are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kobayashi, Takao Hata
  • Patent number: 7772499
    Abstract: A wildlife guard for electrical power equipment including an electrically insulating material with a conductive material therein in a quantity sufficient for the guard to maintain an electrostatic charge when placed in an electrical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Inventor: James B. Rauckman
  • Patent number: 7772500
    Abstract: An improved pole mount cable restraint insulator is described featuring a pin and bolt locking mechanism that may be used to secure a medium voltage 5 kV to 35 kV electrical cable to the insulator and riser pole. The cable restraint insulator includes a seat to secure the cable. A further improvement over existing cable restraints is the polymer insulating materials used in the construction. Such materials are lighter in weight, electrically track resistant, lower in cost and non-breakable. The cable restraint insulator may be constructed by injection molding and/or casting with variety of electrically insulating polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Marmon Utility LLC
    Inventors: May K. Cho, Robert Mielinski
  • Patent number: 7772501
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board (FPC) is disclosed which can eliminate the need for forming through holes and ensure the strength required for mounting components. The FPC has a metal foil layer formed only on one side of an insulating layer via an adhesive layer. The FPC is configured such that the insulating layer and the adhesive layer are partially removed, and the surface of the metal foil layer on the side from which the insulating layer and the adhesive layer have been removed is flattened. In a region from which the insulating layer and the adhesive layer have been removed, an overcoat layer for reinforcing the metal foil layer is provided along the metal foil layer on a surface opposite to the flattened surface. A drive IC is mounted on a first metal foil face of the metal foil layer and on a second metal foil face which is the flattened surface of the metal foil layer, and is provided with electrical conduction by the metal foil layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignees: Molex Incorporated, Innovation TS Flex-Technology
    Inventors: Susumu Ueda, Shuichi Arimura
  • Patent number: 7772503
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding device for an MRI apparatus having a fastener for fastening the shielding device to a shielding element in the apparatus so as to surround said opening of a cavity and which shielding device is electrically connected to ground, wherein the fastener electrically connects the shielding device to the shielding element at the cavity opening; wherein the shielding device is flexible and is cylindrical and/or in a truncated cone shape, and has at least a passage opening for the body part; the shielding device is adapted to be fastened or compressed at said opening to the body part with a predetermined force in such a way as to close said opening and generate a low-impedance electrical contact between the body part and said shielding device to prevent or reduce the infiltration of electromagnetic noise from outside to inside said detection cavity; the shielding device is made of a first inner conductive material layer and an outer insulating fabric layer; and further includes at least on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Esaote S.p.A.
    Inventor: Aldo Ginanneschi