Patents Issued in April 9, 2013
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Patent number: 8414095Abstract: A shelf assembly (1020) in a refrigerator (1002) includes a refrigerator shelf (1022). Also included is a cantilever frame (1028) to slidably support the shelf (1022). The shelf assembly (1020) includes a left side hanger set (1042) extending rearwardly from the cantilever frame (1028). A right side rear bracket extension (1044) extends directly to the right from the right end and the rear portion of the cantilever frame (1028). The rear bracket extension (1044) provides for an offset of the refrigerator shelf (1022) from one side of the refrigerator (1002). The offset provides that when the shelf (1022) is extended forwardly, the front end of the shelf (1022) will not be interfered with by any portion of the refrigerator door when the door is in an open position.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: SSW Holding Company, Inc.Inventor: Brian Joseph Stewart
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Patent number: 8414096Abstract: A scanner, an image forming apparatus and a motor control method of the scanner and the image forming apparatus. The motor control method includes scanning a test image formed on a document, calculating an actual speed of a scan head moved by the motor using the scanned test image, calculating a matrix representing a relation between a driving signal to drive the motor and the calculated actual speed of the scan head, and renewing the driving signal using an inverse matrix to the calculated matrix to correct the actual speed of the scan head.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Jong-hyon Yi, Dane Baang, George Chiu, Moeed Mukhtar
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Patent number: 8414097Abstract: An image forming apparatus creates a drive waveform containing a first pulse to discharge the droplet and a second pulse to cause a liquid to flow within a recording head. A data creation part creates data to select a first or second droplet discharge pulse. The first droplet discharge pulse contains the first pulse and the second pulse. The second droplet discharge pulse does not contain the second pulse. When the first or second droplet discharge pulse is selected in a subsequent drive period and when neither the first nor second droplet discharge pulse is selected in a current drive period, the second pulse is selected in the current drive period when selecting the second droplet discharge pulse in the subsequent drive period, and the second pulse is not selected in the current drive period when selecting the first droplet discharge pulse in the subsequent drive period.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Takafumi Sasaki
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Patent number: 8414098Abstract: In an image forming device, the print head performs a bi-directional printing including a first print while being moved in the first direction and a second print while being moved in the second direction. The conveying mechanism conveys the recording medium a first amount prior to the first print and a second amount prior to the second print. The relative tilt offset amount indicates an offset between tilts of the print head when the print head is moved in the first direction and when the print head is moved in the second direction. The tilt calibration value is determined based on the relative tilt offset amount. The conveying amount setting unit sets the first amount to a calibrated amount obtained by calibrating a prescribed amount based the relative tilt offset amount or the relative tilt calibration value prior to the first print and that sets the second amount to the prescribed amount prior to the second print.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasunari Yoshida
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Patent number: 8414099Abstract: A printer enables setting roll paper in a center-referenced position based on received paper width information, and printing correctly to the printing area of the paper set to the centered position. When the paper width of the paper used for printing is not contained in the received data, the printer sets the paper width of the paper for printing to the maximum paper width. The distance L from the edge of the transportation path to the start printing position of the inkjet head is also set to L=Lm (where Lm is the size of the margin on the paper). When the paper width is contained in the received data, the position where the paper is set is the center reference, and the received paper width is set as the paper width of the paper used for printing.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Motohiro Nakamaki
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Patent number: 8414100Abstract: A liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus detects malfunction of a liquid ejecting head that discharges liquid droplets. The liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus includes a liquid droplet landing portion on which a discharged liquid droplet can land. An electric change detecting unit detects an electric change in the liquid droplet landing portion. A controlling unit supplies a discharging drive signal to a driving element for discharging a liquid droplet, generates a potential difference between the discharged liquid droplet and the liquid droplet landing portion, and detects landing of the liquid droplet based on activity of the electric change detecting unit. A non-landing unit ensures that no liquid droplet lands on the liquid droplet landing portion when the discharging drive signal is applied to the driving element. A judging unit judges whether the liquid ejecting head inspection apparatus functions properly based on activity of the electric change detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Eiichiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 8414101Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a motor that drives an object to be driven; a detection unit that detects the speed of the object to be driven; and a control unit that controls driving of the motor based on a speed profile including an acceleration range, a constant-speed range, and a deceleration range, and determines that the speed of the object to be driven is abnormal when the difference between the detection speed of the detection unit and the speed of the speed profile exceeds a threshold value, wherein a first threshold value is set in the constant-speed range, and a second threshold value, which is higher than the first threshold value, is set in at least a portion of the acceleration range and the deceleration range.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Sumito Anzai, Tomoyoshi Kakegawa
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Patent number: 8414102Abstract: A method for calibrating in situ a plurality of printheads in an imaging device has been developed. Firing signals operate a plurality of printheads to form ink test patterns on an image receiving member. Reflectance measurements of light reflected from the test patterns and optical density measurements for a portion of the patterns formed by only one printhead in the plurality of printheads are used to adjust the firing signals and enable the printheads to print within a predetermined range about an average reflectance value and a predetermined optical density.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: R. Enrique Viturro, Yeqing Zhang, Patricia J. Donaldson
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Patent number: 8414104Abstract: A recording apparatus may comprise a recording head which has an ejection surface, and a wiping device configured to move in a wiping direction. The wiping device may comprise a wiper and a wiper holder. The wiping device may comprise a cam mechanism configured to support the wiper holder and change the height of the wiper holder, such that the wiper is positioned at a contacting height when the cam mechanism is moving in the wiping direction, and such that the wiper is positioned at a separation height when the cam mechanism is moving in the retracting direction. The wiping device may comprise a guide mechanism. The wiping device may comprise a moving device configured to move the wiper and the wiper holder together with the cam mechanism by moving the cam mechanism selectively in either the wiping direction or a retracting direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoichiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 8414105Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a first carriage having a first recording head and a first lifting/lowering unit, a second carriage having a second recording head and a second lifting/lowering unit, a drive source, a drive coupling unit provided to the drive source, a first coupling unit, a second coupling unit, a docking/separation unit that docks and separates the first and second carriages, and an accommodation/coupling unit. A first end of the second coupling unit is coupled to the drive coupling unit, and the accommodation/coupling unit couples the first coupling unit to a second end of the second coupling unit and accommodates the first coupling unit within the first carriage to uncouple the first coupling unit from the second end of the second coupling unit. Accommodation and coupling of the first coupling unit are performed in conjunction with docking and separation of the first and second carriages.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Komuro, Shinichiro Naruse, Mamoru Yorimoto, Ryusuke Mase, Soichi Saiga
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Patent number: 8414106Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a print engine having one or more ink jet print heads and ink lines coupled to provide ink to each of the print heads. The system also includes a fluid change manifold coupled to the ink lines to remove fluid from the print engine via the ink lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: InfoPrint Solutions Company LLCInventors: Casey E. Walker, Scott R. Johnson, Stuart J. Boland
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Patent number: 8414107Abstract: The liquid ejection device includes a head having nozzles for ejecting a liquid, a first liquid-receiving section having a sloped face for receiving liquid ejected from the nozzles when flushing is carried out by the head, and a second liquid-receiving section for receiving and holding liquid that has dripped from the sloped face. The liquid ejected from the nozzles through flushing can flow away, and therefore printing defects caused by accumulation of the liquid can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Nobuaki Kamiyama
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Patent number: 8414108Abstract: Disclosed is an ejection chip for an inkjet printhead that includes at least one fluid via configured on the ejection chip for supplying fluid to one or more ejecting elements of the ejection chip. Each fluid via of the at least one fluid via includes a plurality of end-to-end coupled segments. Each segment of the plurality of end-to-end coupled segments is aligned at a skew angle with a consecutive segment. Further, the ejection chip includes a plurality of nozzles configured along a length of the each segment of the plurality of end-to-end coupled segments with a first nozzle spatial density. The configuration of the plurality of nozzles facilitates in achieving a predetermined print resolution with the first nozzle spatial density.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventor: Jiandong Fang
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Patent number: 8414109Abstract: A head array unit includes plural heads that discharge liquid droplets; a head supporting member on which the plural heads are disposed; and intermediate members, fixed to the head supporting member, having positioning reference parts configured to position the heads, wherein the heads are mounted on the intermediate members detachably from an opposite side of the intermediate members with respect to the head supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Akira Saito
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Patent number: 8414110Abstract: An inkjet head includes a channel substrate having multiple individual liquid chambers arranged in a shorter-side direction of the channel substrate, the individual liquid chambers being separated by multiple liquid chamber partition walls and communicating with ink supply openings; multiple diaphragms defining surfaces of the individual liquid chambers facing toward nozzle openings; multiple actuators formed on the diaphragms, each of the actuators being formed of a lower electrode, a piezoelectric element, and an upper electrode stacked in layers; and multiple individual electrode interconnects led out from the upper electrodes of the actuators, the individual electrode interconnects being connected to the corresponding upper electrodes on the nozzle opening side and on the ink supply opening side of the upper electrodes, the individual electrode interconnects being formed in regions where the liquid chamber partition walls are formed.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Kato, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8414111Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus is able to realize, with a simple electrode configuration, functions for both converging effects that cause charged particles to head towards a single axis as well as deflecting effects that change the orientation of the axis of convergence. This can improve droplet landing precision in a charge deflection continuous stream droplet ejection apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toru Nakakubo
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Patent number: 8414112Abstract: A printing material delivery system includes a printing material storage that includes a printing material. The printing material deliver system also includes a print head. A pressurizing device defines a housing that includes an inlet coupled to the printing material storage, an outlet coupled to the print head, and that houses a rotatable member that is operable to rotate and create a pressure differential in order to transfer the printing material from the printing material storage, through the pressurizing device, and out of the print head.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Wei Ming Pan, Hin Loong Wong
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Patent number: 8414113Abstract: A discharging device includes a liquid container configured to contain a liquid, a discharge channel configured to discharge a fluid from the liquid container, a float member which is lower in specific gravity than the liquid, is movably arranged in the discharge channel, and move up together with the liquid to come into contact with a float sealing member arranged in the discharge channel, thereby shutting the discharge channel, separating means configured to separate the float member from the float sealing member, suction means configured to discharge the fluid from the liquid container via the discharge channel, and control means configured to operate the separating means when operating the suction means.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junya Kawase, Manabu Sueoka, Shinji Yamamoto, Yohji Ara
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Patent number: 8414114Abstract: Disclosed is a system for priming a fluid jetting device. The system includes a fluid trench configured within a fluid jetting chip of the fluid jetting device and at least one first channel fluidly coupled to the fluid trench. The at least one first channel extends vertically between the fluid jetting chip and a mounting unit adapted to support the fluid jetting chip, and is adapted to supply a priming fluid to the fluid trench. The system further includes at least one second channel fluidly coupled to the fluid trench. The at least one second channel extends vertically between the fluid jetting chip and the mounting unit, and is adapted to drain-out the priming fluid from the fluid trench. Further disclosed are systems for priming a fluid jetting device, in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.Inventors: Jiandong Fang, Frank Anderson, Audrey Dale Rodgers, Timothy Lowell Strunk, James Powers
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Patent number: 8414115Abstract: A liquid supplying apparatus includes: a pressure applying device applying pressure to the liquid inside a supply flow channel connected to a liquid supply object; a pressure buffering unit including a deformable or movable partition separating a liquid chamber connected to the supply flow channel and a gas chamber; a gas flow channel switching device connecting and disconnecting the gas chamber and a gas storage unit; an atmosphere connection channel switching device connecting and disconnecting the gas storage unit to and from the atmosphere; a switching controlling device controlling operations of the gas flow channel switching device and the atmosphere connection channel switching device during initial position adjustment of the partition and during pressurization of the liquid supply object; and a pressure controlling device controlling the pressure applying device in response to the operations of the gas flow channel switching device and the atmosphere connection channel switching device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Shibata
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Patent number: 8414116Abstract: A melt plate for use in a solid ink printer is formed with a drip plate to provide controlled flow of melted ink from the melt plate to a drip point. The melt plate includes a first portion having a perimeter, a second portion having a perimeter, the second planar portion angling from the first portion along a transition boundary at a first angle, a first rim extending around the perimeter of the first portion except along the transition boundary, the first rim angling from the first portion at a second angle, and a second rim extending around the perimeter of the second portion except along the transition boundary and a drip point, the second rim angling from the second portion at a third angle, the third angle being different than the second angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael Alan Fairchild, James Harvey Gottsch, Ernest Isreal Esplin
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Patent number: 8414117Abstract: According to the present invention, the size of a droplet ejected to a target area is minimized to obtain high printing resolution, and effects of attraction and adhesive forces acting between a nozzle and air resistance can be minimized so that the target area is finely controlled to obtain high printing precision. An inkjet printing apparatus according to the present invention includes an ejecting device ejecting a droplet of a solution to a target area; and a light irradiating device irradiating light onto the droplet at an acute angle with respect to a line going through the ejecting device and the target area to heat and evaporate a part of the droplet before the ejected droplet reaches the target area, so that the droplet is accelerated along the line.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Medikan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hee-Young Lee
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Patent number: 8414118Abstract: The method forms an image using an inkjet recording apparatus, which includes: an image formation unit having a line head type inkjet head disposed opposite a circumferential surface of an image formation drum, the inkjet head depositing the aqueous ink onto the recording medium while the recording medium is held and conveyed in rotation on the circumferential surface of the image formation drum; and a drying unit arranged on a downstream side of the image formation unit, the drying unit having a drying device disposed opposite a circumferential surface of a drying drum, the drying device drying a solvent in the aqueous ink deposited on the recording medium, the drying unit drying the solvent by means of the drying device while the recording medium is held and conveyed in rotation on the circumferential surface of the drying drum; using, as the recording medium, a special paper which is a recording medium successively laminated from a base paper, a first layer containing a binder and a second layer containingType: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Yasuhiko Kachi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Terukazu Yanagi, Misato Sasada
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Patent number: 8414119Abstract: An eyeglass frame assembly adaptable to lenses of different curvatures for holding replaceable optical or sunglass lenses includes an inner frame and an eyeglass frame. The inner frame has a rear periphery and laterals thereof formed as an abutting surface corresponding to a forward receiving area and two lateral linking rooms formed on the eyeglass frame. The inner frame preinstalled with the optical lenses or the sunglass lenses is easily assembled to the eyeglass frame by inserting two laterals of the inner frame into the lateral linking rooms of the eyeglass frame and buckling a middle portion of the inner frame to a corresponding portion of the eyeglass frame, to allow the abutting surface of the inner frame to abut against the matching receiving area of the eyeglass frame. With this design, the inner frame attached to the eyeglass frame can be easily replaced as needed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Day Sun Industrial Corp.Inventor: Hsueh-Chu Yeh
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Patent number: 8414120Abstract: An eyeglass frame is provided that includes a lens retaining part having an end piece, a temple piece, and a hinge connecting the end piece and the temple piece. The hinge includes a substantially cylindrical element having a slot, and a projection coupled to the temple piece and adapted to be received in the slot of the substantially cylindrical element. The hinge further includes a substantially cylindrical support member coupled to the end piece and adapted to accept the substantially cylindrical element and including retaining means adapted to maintain the projection in the slot of the substantially cylindrical element. A hinge for an eyeglass frame is provided. A method of assembling a hinge for an eyeglass frame is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Inventor: Lak Cheong
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Patent number: 8414121Abstract: An optical and mechanical design of a sealed, non-round fluid-filled lens capable of providing variation of optical power. The fluid lens includes at least three optical components: at least one mostly rigid optical disc, at least one mostly flexible optical membrane and a layer of a transparent fluid that is in communication via a fluid channel with a reservoir of excess fluid contained in a reservoir that can be accessed to augment the fluid volume inside the fluid lens to change the power of the fluid lens. The fluid lens is capable of providing correction of spherical and astigmatic errors, and utilizes contoured membranes to minimize image aberrations.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Adlens Beacon, Inc.Inventors: Amitava Gupta, Urban Schnell, Karim Haroud, Hans Jaeger, Lisa Nibauer, Pascal Loser, William Egan
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Patent number: 8414122Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject, an imaging sequence registration unit configured to register an imaging sequence, and a display unit configured to display the imaging sequence registered by the imaging sequence registration unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroki Uchida
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Patent number: 8414123Abstract: Proper selection and centering of an intraocular lens (IOL) is provided. An image of an eye, which may be captured during pre-operative tests and provided to a program operable to calculate the power and axis orientation of the IOL, is used to determine the location and orientation of the IOL. This produces an output or placement guide used to properly center and orient an IOL within the eye.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Mikhail Boukhny, Steven Bott
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Patent number: 8414124Abstract: In order to measure a cornea with the aid of a projection (S11) of a two-dimensional reference pattern onto the cornea and of a detection (S12) of the reflection pattern reflected by the cornea by virtue of the reference pattern, a plurality of different reflection images of one or more reflection patterns reflected by the cornea are stored (S13). For points on the cornea a phase value of the reflection pattern is respectively calculated on the basis of intensities respectively measured in the stored reflection images at a pixel corresponding to the relevant point. At least one measured geometrical value of the cornea is calculated (S2) on the basis of the calculated phase value. The measurement of the cornea on the basis of a plurality of different reflection images of one or more reflection patterns reflected by the cornea enables a continuous measurement of the cornea in which corresponding pixels are acquired and evaluated for each point on the cornea.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: SIS AG, Surgical Instrument SystemsInventors: Christian Rathjen, Roger Cattin, Christoph Meier
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Patent number: 8414125Abstract: An eye distance measurement apparatus according to one aspect of the invention includes an interfering optical system that projects at least one piece of split light toward an examinee's eye, combines the split light, guides the combined light to a light receiving device and moves an optical member in order to adjust an optical path difference between the two pieces of split light, a mode switching unit that issues a mode switching signal for switching between a first measurement mode for moving the optical member at a first scanning rate and a second measurement mode for moving the optical member at a second scanning rate slower than the first scanning rate, and a calculation and control unit that measures an eye distance, based on an output signal of the light receiving device, obtained in the measurement mode corresponding to the mode switching signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Endo, Noriji Kawai, Yasuhisa Murakami
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Patent number: 8414126Abstract: A method for evaluating and/or improving dynamic visual perception of an individual, comprising: a) displaying on a screen (11) a moving pattern (12) having a chosen visual complexity feature (Simp), b) providing a human/machine interface (13, 14) enabling the individual to input a value to indicate the pattern that the individual sees on the screen, c) repeating the preceding steps in order to count the number of successive positive answers imputed at step b), and d1) if the number of successive positive comparisons exceeds a predetermined threshold (S1), increasing (S2) the pattern visual complexity feature of a chosen amount, d2) otherwise, lowering (S7) the pattern visual complexity feature of a chosen amount, e) repeating steps d1) and d2) and lowering (Appl h, S3; S8) the chosen amount each time an alternation between steps d1) and d2) is detected, until a predetermined number (THR) of alternations (Alter) is detected, in order to determine a maximum visual complexity feature (Simp) of patterns that theType: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'OptiqueInventors: Guillaume Giraudet, Adrien Bak
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Patent number: 8414127Abstract: Methods of fabricating and prescribing lenses suitable for color blindness and dyslexia correction are disclosed. The corrective lens may be formed of an optically transparent base material, which is tinted to a desired color for correction by immersion in a colorant dye. The color tinted lens is then tinted by a neutral tint dye to render the lens observable as a regular corrective lens. Prescription of such lenses may be based on a dynamically balanced, or haploscopic, fashion of prescription that comprises selecting a first visual filter from a set of sixteen filters and a second visual filter from the remaining set of fifteen filters, the first for the dominant eye and the second for non-dominant eye.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: ChromaGen Vision LLCInventor: David Andrew Harris
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Patent number: 8414128Abstract: An optical projection device includes a laser engine, a first wave plate and a lens. The laser engine provides light. The first wave plate changes a light phase. The lens focuses light. A projecting method of an optical projection device includes providing a light including a first P polarized light, a first S polarized light, and a second S polarized light, and projecting light through a wave plate on a screen, wherein the wave plate moves in a direction perpendicular to light. A projecting method of an optical projection device includes providing light including a first P polarized light, a first S polarized light, and a second S polarized light, and projecting light through a wave plate on a screen, wherein the wave plate rotates around an axis parallel to a projecting direction of light.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Asia Optical International Ltd.Inventor: Chien-Chih Hsiung
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Patent number: 8414129Abstract: An optical system is provided. The optical system includes a luminous system which comprises a plurality of light source devices and an image unit; and a projection system which receives light having an image through the luminous system, and enlarges and projects the light, wherein the plurality of light source devices comprise a reflection member which reflects light beam emitted from the light source devices, and are disposed so that the light beam emitted from the light source devices is reflected by the reflection member one time and enters to the image unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-hyun Park, Jeong-ho Nho, Sung-tae Kim, Won-yong Lee, Yong-dok Cha
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Patent number: 8414130Abstract: A method of displaying an image on a screen having upper and lower extremities to a viewer located in front of the screen and at a horizontal distance from the screen, the method comprising the steps of: (a) inclining the screen at an angle of 60° or less to a horizontal plane behind the screen; (b) arranging the viewer and screen such that the upper extremity of the screen is further away than its lower extremity from the point of view of the viewer with said upper extremity above the head height of the viewer; and, (c) displaying the image on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: University of YorkInventor: Adar Pelah
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Patent number: 8414131Abstract: The eyeglass-mountable image display device is an image display device which includes an image projection part and a clip which is mounted on the image projection part. The image projection part is held on eyeglasses by the clip which clamps a part of a lens portion of the eyeglasses from both surface sides of the lens portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mitsugi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8414132Abstract: A multiple-lights-combining illumination device includes multiple light sources, multiple sub-rod integrators that respectively guide light from the multiple light sources, and a main rod integrator that guides light from the multiple sub-rod integrators. Each of the sub-rod integrators has reflection surfaces that are parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction, and has an entrance surface and an exit surface that are parallel or perpendicular to each other at ends thereof, the main rod integrator has reflection surfaces that are parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction, and has an entrance surface and an exit surface that are perpendicular to the reflection surfaces at ends thereof, and each reference optical axis that passes through an optical centroid portion of a light-emitting part of the light sources along a light emission direction is arranged so as to pass through substantially a center of the entrance surface of the respective sub-rod integrator.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shigekazu Yamagishi, Hiroki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Kitano
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Patent number: 8414133Abstract: A projection display device comprises a projection lens section to which light modulated by a light modulating element is entered, a mirror section for reflecting the light emitted from the projection lens section to reflect to the projection lens section side and directing the light to a projection plane, and an operation section for displacing a lens in the projection lens section. The operation section is disposed in a region in which the operation section does not hinder an optical path of the light that has been passed through a projection port provided in a main body cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaharu Adachi, Shinichi Okuno, Ryuhei Amano, Takashi Ikeda, Takashi Miwa
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Patent number: 8414134Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes first and second light source units. An optical axis converting element has a first surface that reflects a luminous flux emitted from the first light source unit and a second surface that reflects a luminous flux emitted from the second light source unit and is configured to reflect respective luminous fluxes emitted from the respective light source units in substantially one direction. Each of the luminous fluxes entering the optical axis converting element has different dimensions in two directions orthogonal to each other in a plane orthogonal to an emission axis of the each light source unit. The optical axis converting element is arranged such that a cross-sectional shape of the luminous flux entering each optical axis converting element taken along the surface has a short side direction in the same direction as the direction of arrangement of the first and second surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yoshitaka Itoh
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Patent number: 8414135Abstract: A reflector for a vehicle can include a plurality of retroreflective elements configured to retroreflect incident light incident parallel to a horizontally-arranged reference axis, obliquely upward at a prescribed angle with respect to the reference axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takeshi Ishii
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Patent number: 8414136Abstract: A vehicle mirror apparatus comprising a mirror provided at a vehicle; a pivoting member holding the mirror; a sliding part provided at the pivoting member; a holding member pivotably holding the pivoting member, whereby an angle of a mirror surface of the mirror is adjusted; and a pivoting surface provided at the holding member. The sliding part is made slidable on the pivoting surface while a gap is provided between an edge of the holding member at a side of the pivoting member and the pivoting member in a pivoting radial direction of the pivoting member.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-SeisakushoInventors: Nobuhiro Kudo, Isao Sumi
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Patent number: 8414137Abstract: An inside rearview mirror bracket for a windscreen includes a pad portion configured to attach to an interior of the windscreen. A bridge portion is formed as a single piece with the pad portion, and a tunnel is defined by the bridge portion and the pad portion. The mirror bracket includes a mirror receptacle formed as a single piece with the bridge portion opposite the tunnel. The mirror receptacle is configured to receive a rearview mirror. A sensor member may be configured to substantially fill the tunnel, such that the sensor member is disposed intermediate the bridge portion and the windscreen.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Charles R. Quinn, Nicholas P. Nagrant, Eric A. Watterworth, Dennis B. Kazensky, Mark M. Hadley, Thomas D. Hagen
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Patent number: 8414138Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (1), comprising: at least one LED (3) having an emission maximum in a first wavelength range; at least one LED (2) having an emission maximum in a second wavelength range; and a wavelength converting material (5) arranged to receive light of at least said first light wavelength range and having an emission maximum in a third wavelength range which is between said first wavelength range and said second wavelength range. The illumination device according to the invention may provide white light of acceptable overall color rendering while producing particularly high saturation of selected colors.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philipe Electronics N.V.Inventors: Egbert Lenderink, Marco Van As, Petrus J. M. Burgt
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Patent number: 8414140Abstract: A writing instrument providing illumination includes a penholder, a pen core, a solid state lighting source module, and a rotating plate. The rotating plate connects to one end of the penholder. The solid state lighting source module is embedded in the rotating plate which can rotate to a specific angle. A battery providing electrical energy to the solid state lighting source module is arranged inside the penholder. When the rotating plate is turned to a position perpendicular to the penholder the solid state lighting source module is turned on and when the rotating plate is turned to a position adjacent to the penholder the solid state lighting source module is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, Inc.Inventor: Kuo-Cheng Chang
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Patent number: 8414141Abstract: A luminaire for illuminating a space underneath a ceiling or a canopy (1) to which the luminaire (2,3) is attached. The luminaire (2,3) comprises a plurality of LEDs (31) positioned in a straight array, and an elongated convergent lens (30) which extends parallel to the array of LEDs (30). The array of LEDs (30) is located at a distance (D) from the plane of symmetry (33) of the elongated lens (30).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Egbert Lenderink, Marco Van As, Lucas Leo Desiree Van Der Poel, Denis Joseph Carel Van Oers
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Patent number: 8414142Abstract: A portable light is disclosed including a housing having an upper end, a lower end and a cavity for receiving a power source therein. The housing further includes at the upper end a channel having channel walls and a plurality of LED lights in the channel. The channel walls have a height greater than the height of the LED lights.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Walter R. Tucker Enterprises, Ltd.Inventors: Mark H. Tucker, Yalin Liu
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Patent number: 8414143Abstract: A device for creating and enhancing a mood is disclosed. The device includes a cylindrical gobo with a light source and a motor to rotate the gobo. The device may also include color-changing LEDs. Through variations in color, light source intensity and gobo design, a user may create or enhance a desired mood in a room.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Inventor: Judy Gergen
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Patent number: 8414144Abstract: Method, apparatus and systems for a quick change lamp ballast assembly for newly manufactured lamp fixtures having the quick change ballast or a retrofit for an existing lamp fixture. The quick change ballast assembly includes a ballast mounting fixture 110 for housing the ballast 300, a wire connector fixture 130 and a mounting plate 120 for mounting the ballast mounting fixture 110. The ballast assembly allows for replacement of a non operating ballast to reduce replacement time and labor costs. In a new lamp fixture, the quick change ballast is thermally isolated from the lamp fixture, which reduces the effects of the waste heat from the ballast, and increase overall building efficiency by reducing the cooling load.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Donald Yochum, John C. Elmes, III, Michael Pepper
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Patent number: 8414145Abstract: A light emitting device according to one embodiment includes: a board; plural first light emitting units each including a first light emitting element and a first fluorescent layer formed on the first light emitting element having a green phosphor; plural second light emitting units each including a second light emitting element and a second fluorescent layer formed on the second light emitting element having a red phosphor; the second fluorescent layers and the first fluorescent layers being separated in a non-contact manner with gas interposed there between; and plural third light emitting units each including a third light emitting element and a resin layer formed on the third light emitting element having neither a green phosphor nor the red phosphor, the third light emitting units being disposed between the first light emitting units and the second light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Iwao Mitsuishi, Yumi Fukuda, Aoi Okada, Naotoshi Matsuda, Shinya Nunoue
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Patent number: 8414146Abstract: A display device for increasing brightness of an image generation, including a color cluster system, is provided. The system includes a first color LED cluster having at least a first LED of a first wavelength within a first color range and a second LED of a second different wavelength within the first color range. The light from the first LED may be combined at least partially with light from the second LED The system further comprises a second color LED cluster having at least a first LED of a first wavelength within a second color range and a second LED of a second different wavelength within the second color range. In the second color LED cluster, the light from the first LED may be combined at least partially with light from the second LED.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: David Kerry Kiser