21st week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100130230 | BEACON SECTORING FOR POSITION DETERMINATION - Apparatuses and methods for sector-based position determination of a mobile station are presented. One method includes determining an estimate of a distance between the mobile station and at least one wireless access point (WAP), receiving sector information which describes sectors associated with the at least one WAP, and combining the distance estimate and sector information to determine a position of the mobile station. One apparatus includes a wireless transceiver, a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver, and a memory coupled to the processor which stores executable instructions and data. The instructions cause the processor to determine an estimate of a distance between the mobile station and at least one wireless access point (WAP), receive sector information which describes sectors associated with the at least one WAP, and combine the distance estimate and sector information to determine a position of the mobile station. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130231 | Lawful interception of location based service traffic - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a telecommunication system to generate Interception Related Information IRI related to positioning activities involving a mobile subscriber/equipment MSA The system provides information to an Intercept configuration unit ICU, collected from an Intercept Access Point IAP; MSC, GMLC that is associated to the monitored subscriber/equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving to the Intercept Access Point IAP; MSC, GMLC from the Intercept configuration unit ICU, a request to monitor the mobile subscriber/equipment MSA. Registration in the Intercept Access Point IAP; MSC, GMLC, of a positioning activity involving the monitored subscriber/equipment. Delivering information related to the positioning activity, from the Intercept Access Point IAP; MSC, GMLC to the Law Enforcement Agency LEA. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130232 | Location Based Services with Multiple Transmission Methods - A location-based service system for providing messages to a recipient and, in particular, to transmission methods and systems for providing location data of a device to a location-based service system. A method of updating a location of a mobile device includes determining a location of the mobile device and, based on Internet accessibility of the mobile device, transmitting the location via Internet communication when Internet access is available and via SS7 communication when Internet access is unavailable. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130233 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES, ASSET MANAGEMENT AND TRACKING - A system for location based services utilizing a mobile device includes a software module configured to operate in a background mode on the mobile device. The software module is further configured to determine a geographical location of the mobile device and transmit the geographical location at predetermined intervals. A services platform is in communication with the mobile device for receiving the geographical location. The services platform includes at least one location based service module for facilitating at least one location based service on the mobile device. A plurality of back end databases is in communication with the services platform where the services platform integrates data from the back end databases with data from a location database. A secure website is included where an owner of the mobile device can view the geographical location of the mobile device and geographical locations of other mobile devices and have the ability to view friends/family/business associates on their mobile device. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130234 | PERSONAL BROADCAST SERVICE TRANSMITTER AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A personal broadcast service transmitter and a mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal receiving a personal broadcast service includes a location information transmitter to transmit location information of the mobile terminal to a personal broadcast service transmitter transmitting the personal broadcast service over a mobile communication network; and a personal broadcast service receiver to receive from the personal broadcast service transmitter the personal broadcast service generated based on the location information of the mobile terminal. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130235 | Apparatus and method for providing map service using global positioning service in a moble terminal - An apparatus and method for providing a map service using a global positioning service in a mobile terminal includes determining a current position of the mobile terminal. A moving path of the mobile terminal is recorded. If content for key point marking are generated, a tag icon corresponding to the content is inserted into a point representing the current position of the mobile terminal. A map message includes the moving path, the tag icon, and the content. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130236 | LOCATION ASSISTED WORD COMPLETION - Embodiments include systems and methods for providing location and object specific word completion assistance. Sensors may detect information regarding a landmark, location or object, and an embodiment may identify such landmarks, locations and objects and provide word lists to assist a user in entering text. Identification of such places and objects may include receiving information from one or more sensors; such information includes location and orientation information, near field communications information, and images. Images may be analyzed to determine objects and locations in the images. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DRX CYCLE USED FOR PAGING - Techniques for determining a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle used to receive paging are described. A user equipment (UE) may have (i) a first DRX cycle used by a first network (e.g., a core network) to page the UE and (ii) a second DRX cycle used by a second network (e.g., a RAN) to page the UE. In an aspect, the UE may use the longer DRX cycle and ignore the shorter DRX cycle, when allowed, to extend battery life. In one design, the UE may receive an indication of whether the second DRX cycle can be ignored or is to be considered by the UE. The UE may use the longer DRX cycle if the second DRX cycle can be ignored and may receive paging from the first network and/or the second network based on the longer DRX cycle. In another aspect, the UE may negotiate a DRX cycle with a network. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130238 | MOBILE-ORIGINATED SMS OVER A WIRELESS IP NETWORK - A method for offloads SMS messages from a voice network of a wireless carrier to a data network. The method includes sending a mobile originated SMS using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) from a wireless handset to a short message service center (SMSC) over a wireless data network. The method further includes conducting a lookup at the SMSC to determine the home SMSC for the originating mobile handset and sending a redirect to the mobile handset as means to facilitate a dynamic update of the home SMSC location stored on the wireless handset. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130239 | Systems and Methods for Providing Anonymous Messaging - An exemplary messaging anonymity system (MAS) for providing anonymous messaging between a mobile device and a third-party service provider via a communications network can include a processor, a network interface, and a memory. The memory can be configured to store instructions that, when executed, perform the steps of an exemplary method. The exemplary method can include receiving a mobile-originated (MO) message from a mobile device, the MO message being destined for a third-party service provider, determining to provision an anonymous subscriber identification (ASI) to be used in lieu of a subscriber address associated with the mobile device, provisioning the ASI, and sending the MO message to the third-party service provider, wherein the ASI is presented to the third-party service provider as an originating subscriber address. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130240 | Portable Network Device For The Discovery Of Nearby Devices And Services - A method of determining communication resource availability within range of a user-centric mobile network is disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises discovering communication resources within range of the user-centric mobile network, the communication resources including unique resource identifiers, and transmitting the unique resource identifiers and a user identifier to a server that is accessible from outside the user-centric mobile network. The communication resources may have associated therewith an available service and a current status and the method may further comprise transmitting available service information and current status information to the server. Also disclosed is a service discovery device for use in implementing the method. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130241 | Wireless Communication Terminal Apparatus - A wireless communication terminal apparatus having a plurality of wireless communication units ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130242 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication method, for use in a communication system that performs radio communication between a number of vehicle-mounted terminal devices and a base station device, includes transmitting, by each of the vehicle-mounted terminal devices, vehicle-mounted device information thereof, and lastly-accessed identification information indicating a base station device that was in the radio communication with a vehicle-mounted terminal device just before when the communications therewith is cut off and authenticating, by the base station device, when there is a match between the transmitted lastly-accessed identification information and the identification information of the base station device stored in the base station device, based on the vehicle-mounted device information of the vehicle-mounted terminal devices stored in the base station device not entirely but partially, and the vehicle-mounted device information transmitted by each of the vehicle-mounted terminal devices. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130243 | Format Based Power Control - Power control methods and apparatus taught herein advantageously provide quick convergence to the signal quality target needed to achieve a given data error rate target, when changes in transport format use by a given transport channel require such convergence. Specifically, the methods and apparatus maintain a “baseline” signal quality target that stays current with changing signal propagation conditions because it is common to all transport formats used by the transport channel. The methods and apparatus then bias this baseline signal quality target with a target offset particularized for the transport format in use. This offset may be selected from memory or dynamically calculated, and, regardless, can often be applied after a single transmission time interval. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130244 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DATA TRANSMISSION RATE IN BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for controlling a data transmission rate in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the method, an interference factor representing an interference degree by an external sector is measured. Interference given to the external sector is estimated using the interference factor, an interference weight depending on a location of a terminal, and an amount of wireless resource use of a self sector. A data transmission rate is determined with consideration of an interference estimation value and a wireless channel state of the terminal. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130245 | Method For Controlling Transmission Power In Wireless Base Station And Wireless Base Station - A wireless base station controls to decrease a transmission power of a first wireless terminal corresponding to signal quality information exceeding lower limitation of a range in which a transmission scheme to be selected remains unchanged and being below a first threshold value, which is greater than the lower limitation and smaller than upper limitation of the range, among a plurality of wireless terminals corresponding to signal quality information belonging to the range, while controlling to increase a transmission power of a second wireless terminal corresponding to signal quality information being equal to or greater than the first threshold value so that a transmission scheme having a better transmission efficiency is selected, thereby to improve throughput of a communication between the wireless base station and the wireless terminal. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130246 | Method and Apparatus for Producing Hybrid Lenses - The invention generally concerns optical systems and, in particular, a method and device for joining at least one first and one second optical element to an optical composite element, as well as an optical composite element itself. In order to produce optical systems having at least two optical elements more easily and more economically, the invention provides a method for joining at least one first and one second optical element, in which the first optical element contains a first glass or a crystalline material, the second optical element contains a second glass, and the first glass or the crystalline material has a transformation temperature Tg1 or a melting temperature that differs from the transformation temperature Tg2 of the second glass, and at least the glass of the second optical element is heated and brought into contact with the glass or with the crystalline material of the first optical element. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method and to an optical composite element that can be produced using the method. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130247 | Automatic Sidetone Control - An automatic sidetone controller for a digital telecom device, such as a headset or headset adapter having a transmit (TX) channel, a receive (RX) channel, and circuitry for generating a sidetone signal by coupling a portion of a signal on the TX channel onto the RX channel via a sidetone path, is operable to detect when the TX channel of the device is active and inactive and to respectively activate and deactivate the sidetone path in response thereto without need for manual intervention by the user. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130248 | CHANNEL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION - A method for data transmission over first and second media that overlaps in frequency includes computing one or more time division multiple access (TDMA) time-slot channels to be shared between the first and second media for data transmission; allocating one or more time-slot channels to the first medium for data transmission; allocating one or more of the remaining time-slot channels to the second medium for data transmission; and instructing transceivers for the first and second media to communicate only in their allocated time-slot channels. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130249 | WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MULTIMODE AUDIO AMPLIFIER - An electronic device such as a handheld electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include a radio-frequency receiver circuit or other circuitry that is sensitive to noise. Audio amplifier circuitry may be provided in the electronic device to amplify audio signals for a speaker. The audio amplifier circuitry may include class AB amplifier circuitry for operating in a low noise mode and class D amplifier circuitry for operating in a low power mode. The audio amplifier circuitry may include a control input path that receives control signals in real time. When it is determined that the wireless receiver or other sensitive circuit is active, the audio amplifier can be configured to operate in its low noise mode using the class AB amplifier. When it is determine that the wireless receiver is not being used, the class D circuitry may be switched into use to conserve power. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130250 | Method and apparatus for taking images using portable terminal - A portable terminal is capable of assisting a user to place a face of the user in a desired location in a captured image. A portion of a display area of the portable terminal is defined as a face area. A face of a subject outputted to the display area is recognized when a photography request signal is inputted through an input unit. The portable terminal can determine whether the recognized face of the subject is within the defined face area. A photographing operation is performed when the recognized face of the subject is within the defined face area. According to a method and an apparatus for photographing an image, a user may easily and quickly obtain an image of an object of which face is properly positioned in a user wanted location. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130251 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING BACKGROUND IMAGE ON PORTABLE TERMINAL USING LOCATION INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for displaying a background image on a portable terminal that is associated with a current location of the portable terminal. The method includes: comparing information regarding a location where the portable terminal is currently located with information about a location stored in data; and displaying the data as the background image if the current location information regarding the portable terminal is consistent with the location information stored in data. The background images can be automatically displayed in the portable terminal using a variety of captured data related to the portable terminal user. The data may also be pre-captured and downloaded to the portable terminal. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130252 | Portable Communication Terminal and a Control Method for the Portable Communication Terminal - A portable communication terminal comprising of the present invention includes a first wireless communication unit | 2010-05-27 |
20100130253 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVER-THE-AIR SOFTWARE LOADING IN MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method updates software in a mobile device, which includes an application processor and associated application processor memory and a radio processor and associated radio processor memory and a serial port connecting the processors. The associated application processor memory stores an “n” byte digest signature that had been calculated. The software in the radio processor and associated radio processor memory can be updated by over-the-air software loading while checking the associated application processor memory for the “n” byte digest signature used for the over-the-air software loading. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130254 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND PROGRAM EXECUTED BY PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - In a portable communication terminal that functions as a communication instrument by installing an identification recording medium having subscriber information recorded therein, an application acquiring unit | 2010-05-27 |
20100130255 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING A SOFTWARE LICENCE - In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention there is provided a method, comprising: associating an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMSI) with a mobile telecommunication device, the IMSI configured to identify the device to a mobile telephone network; storing a software program in memory associated with the device; storing a license, necessary for allowing the operation of the software program on the device, in memory associated with the device; and locking the license to said IMSI such that the software application cannot be operated on the device without said IMSI being associated with the device; wherein, the license and the IMSI are stored on the same memory medium such that they are transportable from the device together. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130256 | METHOD FOR PREVIEWING OUTPUT CHARACTER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for previewing an output character, and an electronic device are provided. In the present method, at least one touch signal generated by pressing at least one of the keys of a software input panel (SIP) is received. Then, an impending output character corresponding to the pressed key is determined from all relative characters thereof. Finally, showing a display window including at least the output character, and a display format of the output character in the display window is changed to specifically indicate the output character. As a result, the correctness of the pressed key on the SIP can be determined easily, and whether the impending output character is the expected character can be confirmed at the same time. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130257 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided are a mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal, in which the emotions or feelings of the user of one mobile terminal can be carried to the user of another mobile terminal by varying the font size of handwritten input transmitted between the mobile terminals and/or applying a haptic effect to the handwritten input according to the level of pressure applied to a touch screen for generating the handwritten input. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130258 | Gravity axis determination apparatus and mobile terminal apparatus using the same - A gravity axis determination apparatus which can determine the gravity direction in a short time. The apparatus is low in cost and has a simple construction. Data values of acceleration data trains in a same time zone are mutually compared and one of the three axes is determined as a gravity axis. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130259 | MOBILE TERMINAL WITH IMAGE PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF STABILIZING IMAGE THEREIN - A mobile terminal and image stabilizing method therein are disclosed. When a prescribed image is projected using a projector module provided to a mobile terminal, hand shaking is detected by a sensing unit and is then corrected. Therefore, shaking of a projected image can be corrected. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130260 | CELLULAR TELEPHONE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM - In a cellular telephone apparatus a sub-terminal constitutes a part of the cellular telephone apparatus and is separable from a main terminal constituting the apparatus body. Each of the sub-terminal and the main terminal has a battery section, provided are battery remaining amount detecting sections, battery remaining amount notifying sections, table holding sections that hold operation tables that define operations of devices that the main terminal and sub-terminal have corresponding to the battery remaining amounts of the main terminal and sub-terminal. Control sections are provided that determine the operations of devices available based on battery remaining amount. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130261 | EDITOR FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - There is provided a mobile communication device. An exemplary mobile communication device comprises an operating system for the mobile communication device and a radio interface for connecting to a wireless network. The exemplary mobile communication device also comprises a display on which a graphical user interface is displayed to enable the user to operate the mobile communication device according to the operating system. The exemplary mobile communication device additionally comprises a local storage where data files associated with the graphical user interface are stored and a graphical user interface manager that enables the download of a new graphical user interface from a remote device. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130262 | WIRELESS USER INTERFACE APPARATUS FOR USE WITH PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Apparatus for interfacing with a personal communication device having at least one device transceiver. The apparatus includes a first portion having a first wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the device transceiver using a first wireless connection to facilitate transmitting incoming communication data from the communication device to a user through the first portion. The apparatus also includes a second portion having a second wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the device transceiver using a second wireless connection maintained simultaneously to the first wireless connection to facilitate transmitting outgoing communication data from the user to the communication device through the second portion. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL POWER SOURCE MANAGEMENT - A system and method for providing power to a mobile device from two power sources. According to embodiments described herein, a mobile device, such as a cell phone, may include a main battery and an auxiliary battery. The mobile device includes a power management circuit that utilizes a charge-control circuit and a power-selection circuit for implementing a power-management schema. The charge-control circuit may exclusively couple the main battery or the auxiliary battery to an external power source for charging. The power-selection circuit may exclusively couple the main battery or the auxiliary battery for providing power to the mobile device. The system further includes a controller that controls the coupling of the main battery and the auxiliary battery such that if the main battery falls below a sufficient voltage level, the auxiliary battery may be immediately engaged without interruption of the operation of the mobile device. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130264 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF DIFFERENT MODULATION FORMATS FROM A WIRELESS STATION IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM - A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless station including a transceiver with multiple antennas, is provided. In one implementation, the wireless station performs multiple modulation communication by multiplexing different signal carrier modulation formats by antenna cross polarization multiplexing, including mapping the modulation formats to multiple antenna cross polarization branches. Communication power is allocated for each polarization branch by selectively distributing power to each of the polarized antennas based on at least one of: application data rate requirements, communication link quality indication (LQI) and delay spread of cross polarized channels. Data is transmitted utilizing the modulation formats simultaneously at the same frequency over multiple cross polarized antennas. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130265 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE HUMIDIFICATION OF A FUEL CELL - An oxygen/hydrogen fuel cell including a package having, on the side of the cell intended to be exposed to air, an enclosure provided with a mobile cap; an element made of a material which deforms according to the humidity ratio in the package; circuitry for controlling the opening and the closing of the mobile cap; and a switch which opens and closes according to the deformation of said material, said switch being associated with control means. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130266 | Device and Method for Battery Life Management Using Global or Local Positioning System - A device includes a memory, a wireless transceiver and a positioning system. The memory stores a first area in which a wireless network lacks coverage. The wireless transceiver is adapted to communicate with the wireless network. The positioning system determines a position of the device to determine whether the device is located within the first area. The wireless transceiver does not attempt to communicate with the wireless network if the positioning system determines that the device is located within the first area. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130267 | LPRF DEVICE WAKE UP USING WIRELESS TAG - A wireless transceiver includes: (a) a low power radio frequency (LPRF) communications component capable of powering down to conserve energy and capable of powering up in response to an electronic signal, the LPRF communications component including a transmitter and a first receiver; and (b) a second receiver that is configured to screen a radio frequency broadcast and provide, on the basis of specific data identified therein, the electronic signal to the LPRF communications component in order to power up the LPRF communications component. The second receiver is adapted to draw less current than the LPRF communications component while awaiting receipt of and listening for a radio frequency broadcast. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130268 | BATTERY COVER LATCH MECHANISM AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME - The battery cover latch mechanism includes a housing, a battery cover comprising a clasp positioned thereon, a button assembled on the housing, a latching part slidably assembled on the housing; and resisting the button, and a resilient member assembled on the latching part, and resisting the housing. The clasp latches to the latching part to assemble the battery cover on the housing, when the button is pressed, the latching part compresses the resilient member, and the latching part is detached from the clasp by the button. The invention also discloses a portable electronic device using the battery cover latch mechanism. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130269 | SOS COVER OPENING AND SHUTTING APPARATUS FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL - An S.O.S. cover opening and shutting apparatus for a portable terminal allows a user to activate an S.O.S. service by slidingly moving an S.O.S. cover of the portable terminal. The S.O.S. cover opening and shutting apparatus includes an S.O.S. cover for opening and shutting a part of the portable terminal by sliding movement, a rear case in which the S.O.S. cover is arranged against/in, and a bracket fixedly coupled to the S.O.S. cover to permit movement of the S.O.S. cover only in a predetermined section. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130270 | CELLULAR TELEPHONE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE APPARATUS - To separate a part of a cellular telephone apparatus to use, while ensuring the convenience in various functions installed in the cellular telephone apparatus, in a cellular telephone apparatus where a sub-terminal constituting a part of the cellular telephone apparatus is separable from a main terminal constituting the apparatus body, provided are a state monitoring section that detects a state of the sub-terminal, a table holding section that holds a device table that defines devices driven in various functions of the cellular telephone apparatus corresponding to states of the sub-terminal, and a control section that determines devices driven in the sub-terminal and main terminal according to descriptions of the device table in response to the state of the sub-terminal detected in the state monitoring section. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130271 | Slider Form Factor Devices and Methods for Morphing Indicia Visible through a Transparent Member - Disclosed are devices and methods of a slider form factor device having a transparent member supported by its sliding body, and a display module supported by its main body. The transparent member of the sliding body is on top of the display module of the main body in the open position and in the closed position. The transparent member is configured to transmit light received from the display module therethrough. The transparent member provides a morphing effect as light emitted by the display module providing indicia is transmitted through the transparent member, the indicia exhibited through the transparent member changing from first indicia to different indicia depending upon the mode of the device. In the open position, the lower portion of the display module can exhibit a keypad while the top portion of the display module can provide indicia visible through the transparent member of the sliding body. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130272 | SLIDE TYPE PORTABLE TERMINAL - A slide type portable terminal can include a main unit including separated first and second key sections and a first plate coupled to a surface of the main unit and a display unit with a display screen on a front surface and a second plate. The second plate can slide with respect to the first plate and preferably slides along the surface of the main unit to cause the first and second key sections of the main unit to be covered and exposed by the display unit. Further, first and second magnets can be provided on the first and second plates, respectively, so that the same poles of the magnets face each other to provide a repulsive force when they are positioned to face close to each other. According to embodiments of the present invention, there are various advantages in that the portable terminal can be utilized more conveniently and production costs and failure rates thereof can also be reduced. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130273 | PORTABLE WIRELESS DEVICE - Provided is a portable wireless device having a plurality of antennas of different frequency bands. By positively using one antenna for improving gains of other antennas, the one antenna can be effectively used and the gains of other antennas can be improved. Patterns (A | 2010-05-27 |
20100130274 | SCREEN OPERATION SYSTEM, SCREEN OPERATION METHOD, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK SERVICE - Provided is a screen operation method for operating a character in a virtually 3-dimensional space displayed on a 2-dimensional screen. The method includes: inputting a movement command for an object by an input device; displaying on a movement amount display unit, a change of an object movement amount in accordance with the movement command; displaying accumulated effect by the object movement on an accumulated effect display unit; and executing the next event process in the virtually 3-dimensional space by an event generation unit when the accumulated effect has reached a predetermined value. Thus, it is possible to provide GUI exhibiting higher reality in an operation of a simulation game and the like and provide a new business of an online game in which a virtual game world is linked with a real service. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130275 | ELECTRONIC SINGLE PLAYER TABLE BLACKJACK TOURNAMENT - A blackjack tournament including a plurality of players, each seated at a single player table with the same predetermined starting amount of funds to wager, each player being dealt to from at least one deck of playing cards arranged in the same predetermined order as the at least one deck used for each other player. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130276 | Wagering Game With Asset Trading - Method and system are disclosed for operating a wagering game terminal where players are allowed to transfer game assets that they may have accumulated to other players. The game assets may be transferred as part of an on-line auction won by one of the other players, as a gift to a preselected player, or as part of a trade with a preselected player. Neither the transferring player nor the receiving player is required to be present at a wagering game terminal at the time of the transfer. The transfer may be an anonymous transfer or it may be an identity-based transfer. For identity-based transfers, a predefined list of selected players may be used to facilitate the transfers. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130277 | GAME OF CHANCE - A game of chance includes receiving a stake from a player. Each phase of the game of chance comprises assigning randomly selected elements to a number of game stops in the form of a pyramidal matrix. Random selection of an element for each game stop is performed independently of random selection for all other game stops. The player is awarded a return based on a composition of elements assigned to the plurality of game stops. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130278 | WAGERING GAME MACHINE WITH CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMISSION - A computerized wagering game system includes a gaming module comprising gaming code which is operable to present a wagering game on which monetary value can be wagered, and a wireless power module. The power module is operable to provide power to a wagering game component via a power signal traveling through a nonconductive medium. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130279 | SELECTION APPARATUS - A selection apparatus for use with a gaming apparatus having an ordered array of winning areas which are adapted to be selected by selection means, each winning are being associated with one of a plurality of identifiers. The selection apparatus comprises: a first ordered array of alternately offset selection areas; and a second ordered array of alternately offset identifier areas interleaved with the first array such that each area of each array is adjacent to a plurality of areas of the other array. Each identifier area is associated with one of the plurality of identifiers such that the ordering of the identifier areas is the same as the ordering of the winning areas. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130280 | MULTI-PLAYER, MULTI-TOUCH TABLE FOR USE IN WAGERING GAME SYSTEMS - A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130281 | METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER - A gaming system, game controller and method of gaming implementing a game wherein one or more symbols are selected to be retained from a previous game outcome based on symbols which contribute to a winning symbol combination in the game outcome. One or more subsequent game outcomes can be generated including the retained symbols. The retained symbols from a previous game outcome can be selected from symbols which contribute to a winning symbols combination in the previous game outcome. In the subsequent game outcome, the retained symbols can contribute to further winning symbol combinations. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130283 | System for Electronic Game Promotion - A printer on a networked gaming device can be controlled by the network to generate awards. The printer can operate as both a typical printer in a gaming device and as a printer for the gaming network, or separate printers can be installed in the gaming device. If the particular player has identified himself or herself to the gaming network, then the gaming system has a very high probability that it is communicating to a known player. Therefore, the printer operates as a direct communication conduit to a player. Additionally, previously issued awards can be redeemed by a validator coupled to the gaming network. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130284 | GAMING METHODS WITH LOTTERY TICKET PRIZE COMPONENT - A method of increasing player interest in gaming machines is disclosed by the use of lottery tickets as prizes. Lottery ticket purchasing pools are funded from either coin-in (wagers), coin-out (winnings), or in networked gaming systems from player tracking funding (promotional funding). The lottery ticket funding pools build value to a predetermined level, and then individual game machine printers are issued instructions to print lottery tickets (or vouchers redeemable for lottery tickets) to players. This enables an alternative to traditional progressives while providing similar player interest and excitement while using fewer casino resources than traditional progressives. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130285 | UNIVERSAL OVERLAY GAMES IN AN ELECTRONIC GAMING ENVIRONMENT - A method is disclosed herein for displaying winning and non-winning game results in a traditional gaming environment. The system uses an overlay game to present an entertaining display to a player upon the occurrence of a win or trigger event. An overlay game has limited capabilities and additionally is engineered to be usable on a variety of gaming machines. To be usable on a variety of gaming machines, the overlay game is intentionally kept simple; in one case, it comprises a visual display that is shown to a player upon the occurrence of a trigger event. In another embodiment, it requires a simple button press to start the overlay game. The overlay games are downloaded on an as-needed basis, run on the gaming machine, and then discarded. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130286 | System and method for personalized location-based game system including optical pattern recognition - There is provided a personalized game system comprising a user account database containing user accounts for a plurality of users, a pattern database containing recognition data for a plurality of patterns, a controller in communication with the user account database and the pattern database, and a game installation. The game installation comprises an audiovisual presentation system, an identification interface in communication with the controller to read a user identifier to identify a user account of a user from the user account database, and an optical interface in communication with the controller to optically read a card pattern on a game card to match the card pattern with a pattern in the pattern database, the game card having no physical contact with the game installation. The controller is configured to change a state of the game system based on the matched pattern. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130287 | MANAGING SECURITY FOR NETWORK-BASED GAMING - This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for managing security for network-based gaming. A method and system download and install an image of wagering game content on a wagering game machine, wherein the wagering game machine is capable of receiving a wager input from a player. The image is validated and may be transformed to a virtual storage device, such that it appears to be a physical storage device. The files may be accessed and validated in a similar manner as if they were stored on a physical storage device. In some cases, the same image format for content in an image is the same as if the content was stored on a physical storage device. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130288 | RFID-INCORPORATED GAME TOKEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag incorporated game token that does not allow the RFID tag to be easily removed and hardly has failures in the RFID tag during manufacturing or in use is implemented. In the game token, an RFID covered with flexible cover sheets is held between laminate resin films or plates, and these elements are thermally press-bonded, so that the RFID tag is incorporated in a body. The material of the cover sheet is paper, vinyl chloride, polyethylene terephthalate or the like. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130289 | DAMPER MECHANISM - A damper mechanism | 2010-05-27 |
20100130290 | DOUBLE-OFFSET CONSTANT VELOCITY UNIVERSAL JOINT - The outer peripheral surface ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130291 | SPLINE SHAFT - A spline shaft that can suppress occurrence of stick slip by measures other than just simply making the surface roughness smaller. The spline shaft includes a first shaft with an outer-peripheral spline formed, and a second shaft with an inner-peripheral spline, which engages with the outer-peripheral spline peripherally and that is made slidable axially, formed. And, at least either one of the outer-peripheral spline and the inner-peripheral spline includes a substrate whose surface is formed to a predetermined surface roughness, and an amorphous carbon-system hard thin film, which coats and forms the surface of substrate. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130292 | Multi-part longidinal shaft for moto vehicles - A multi-part longitudinal drive shaft of a motor vehicle consists of two shaft sections that are each formed by a shaft tube connected with each other by a homokinetic displacement joint. The outer diameter of the shaft tube in the second shaft section is smaller than the inner diameter of the shaft tube of the first section. The outer joint ring of the homokinetic displacement joint is firmly connected with the shaft tube of the first shaft section and a ball hub of the joint is connected with the second shaft section. When a specific axial position is exceeded, the homokinetic displacement joint can be broken down. The individual parts of the two shaft sections can be displaced into one another, after break-down of the homokinetic displacement joint, so that the second shaft section is displaced in the direction of the first shaft section. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130293 | TELESCOPIC SHAFT - The invention relates to a telescopic shaft for vehicles comprising an inner shaft ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130294 | METHOD OF FIXING BOOT - A method for fixing a boot includes mounting a tubular anchoring areas ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130295 | Nail manufacturing machine - A nail manufacturing machine includes two cutting tools movable to cut a wire into a nail blank, a sorting member having a channel for receiving the nail blank, an indexing wheel disposed below the sorting member and having a number of nail blank holding grooves formed in the outer peripheral portion for stably and horizontally supporting the nail blank without complicated nail blank holders and retaining members and for allowing the nail blank to be effectively hammered or machined by a nail machining tool, and a driving device includes a spindle for moving the tool member to machine the nail blank, and for moving the cutting tools to cut the wire into the nail blank. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130296 | System and method for providing an augmented reality experience - There is provided a system comprising a venue including a mapped physical space; a venue management system configured to control real events occurring within the venue; a transporter designed to transport at least one occupant through the mapped physical space along a known path, the transporter configured to move through the mapped physical space under the control of the venue management system; an augmented reality experience server including a virtual venue generator in communication with the venue management system, the virtual venue generator for producing a virtual venue having a virtual representation of the mapped physical space including virtual events and real events occurring within the venue; the augmented reality experience server configured to provide the at least one occupant of the transporter with an augmented sensory perspective including a selective combination of the real events occurring in the venue and the virtual events produced by the virtual venue generator. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130297 | Sports Facility - A sporting facility comprises a plurality of rotary elements having flexible components extending therefrom, the rotary elements being arranged so that the flexible components thereof provide a substantially continuous supporting surface, and means for rotating the rotary elements, wherein the rotary elements are arranged such that the flexible components are caused to rotate at an angle to the supporting surface. The flexible components are preferably filaments or fibres, extending perpendicular to the substantially continuous surface. The facility is of particular use in providing an artificial surface for skiing, snow boarding, surfing or the like. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND/OR ANALYZING SWING INFORMATION - In a first aspect, a system for monitoring a swing is provided that includes a wireless device adapted to couple to a swinging object and to provide information indicative of a characteristic of the swinging object. The wireless device is a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant (PDA). Numerous other aspects are provided. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130299 | Visual Aid - A visual aid for use in a ball game, such as golf, consists of a ball or disc on which a ball can be placed provided with markings on the surface comprising cross-hairs and a circle, which circle in the case of the ball is of a smaller diameter than the diameter of the ball or in the case of the disc is equal to or greater in diameter than the diameter of the golf ball so as to be used in combination with the periphery of the ball to enable the player to position the player's eyes relative to the ball and in respect of the cross-hairs facilitate the adoption by the player of a targeted mode of vision as well as facilitating the alignment of the direction in which the golf ball is to be propelled. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130300 | GOLF PRACTICE APPARATUS - Golf training apparatus comprises a base having an opening through which an anchor member passes for embedding in the ground. The anchor member and the base have engageable and disengageable retainers which respectively enable and prevent separation thereof. The anchor member is coupled to a ball support in such manner as to enable the ball support to provide support for a golf ball and to rock relative to the anchor member in response to the striking of the ball or its support by a golf club. The coupling between the ball support and the anchor member is resiliently elastic, thereby enabling automatic recovery of the ball support member to its ball-supporting condition following the execution of a stroke. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130301 | Stand for golf clubs - An improved stand for golf clubs may provide the ability to keep the golf clubs with the golfer, but not having the lie the clubs on the ground. It is an improved stand for holding golf clubs while golfing on the greens of a golf course. The stand may represent a simple design that can be stood on the ground and carried with the golfer while golfing. This is especially useful, but not limited to, when carrying the putter, the sand wedge and other clubs near the golf hole. In a preferred embodiment, the stand is a simple design that can be placed on the ground and carried with the golfer while golfing. This is especially useful, but not limited to, when carrying the putter, the sand wedge and other clubs near the golf hole. In an alternative embodiment, the stand can be opened and stood up to have the golf clubs leaned against it while in use by manually locking the legs into place. It may be placed in the golf bag and used when needed to carry multiple clubs on the greens. In an alternative embodiment, the stand can be opened and stood up to have the golf clubs leaned against it while in use by manually locking the legs into place. Overall, the stand may be useful for golfers who don't want to lay their clubs on the ground. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130302 | SOLE FOR IRON GOLF CLUB HEAD - The present invention discloses an iron-type golf club head in which the sole portion has a main surface and a stepped surface. Further, the sole portion comprises a chromium coating. The invention creates a unique combination of head shape and surface friction coefficients that minimize the bad effects of turf impact. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130303 | GOLF CLUB HEAD OR OTHER BALL STRIKING DEVICE HAVING STIFFENED FACE PORTION - A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a head that includes a face configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face, the body being adapted for connection of a shaft proximate a heel thereof. The face includes one or more stiffening members or other structures on the inner surface of the face to provide locally increased stiffness to particular areas of the face. Certain stiffening members may provide greater stiffness than other stiffening members, allowing the face to be configured for areas of greatest stiffness and greatest COR tailored to common impact patterns. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130304 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH CONCAVE INSERT - A hollow golf club head with a concave portion is disclosed and claimed. The club head includes a metallic portion and a light weight portion, which may be formed of plastic, composite, or the like. The concave portion allows the club designer to make a club head having very thin portions while still maintaining the requisite structural integrity. Convex bulges may optionally be provided to house weight inserts to enhance the playing characteristics of the golf club. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130305 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH CONCAVE INSERT - A hollow golf club head with a concave portion is disclosed and claimed. The club head includes a metallic portion and a light weight portion, which may be formed of plastic, composite, or the like. The concave portion allows the club designer to make a club head having very thin portions while still maintaining the requisite structural integrity. Convex bulges may optionally be provided to house weight inserts to enhance the playing characteristics of the golf club. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130306 | Golf Club Heads with Multiple Materials and Methods to Manufacture Golf Club Heads with Multiple Materials - Embodiments of golf club heads with multiple materials and methods to manufacture golf club heads with multiple materials are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130307 | GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH UNDERCUT - A golf club head having an undercut is disclosed. The club head includes a body defining a striking face, a top line, a sole, a back, a heel, and a toe. The back contains a cavity that extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the face. A recess is provided within the cavity, with the recess extending away from the cavity and toward the sole. The recess causes more of the club head mass to be oriented towards the perimeter of the club head, and optionally also toward the back of the club head. This enlarges the club sweet spot and increases the moment of inertia, and facilitates imparting a desired flight path to a struck golf ball, producing a more forgiving club. The recess may have a varying depth and/or a varying draft angle. A rear wall of the recess may be provided with a cutout to further reposition mass toward the club head perimeter. An insert, such as a vibration dampening member, may be provided within the recess. The insert may contain secondary inserts, such as weight members, therein in strategic locations. The insert may completely fill the recess, or may fill only a portion thereof. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130308 | GOLF BALLS INCORPORATING RIGID, ROSIN-MODIFIED POLYMERS - Golf ball compositions including a rosin-modified polymeric composition including a conventional ionomer, acid copolymer, highly neutralized polymer, or other suitable polymer that has been modified with a rosin material to impart stiffness through increasing the flexural modulus of the material. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130309 | MULTI-LAYER CORE GOLF BALL - Golf balls having a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core contains a center and an outer core layer that are both soft relative to a hard intermediate core layer. The outer core layer is thin relative to the center and outer core layer. In one embodiment, the relatively hard intermediate core layer has a surface hardness of 80 to 90 Shore C which is greater than the center hardness and surface hardness of the outer core layer. In another embodiment, the cover includes an inner cover layer having a surface hardness of 60 Shore D or greater and an outer cover layer having a surface hardness of 20 to 70 Shore D. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130310 | Tee-setting device - A device which positions a golf tee to a predetermined height above the ground. The cup of a standard golf tee fits into a circular recess within the head of the device while the shaft of the tee is held against a groove along the body of the device. The device is a rigid, unitary piece with the vertical distance from the circular recess to the bottom of the body equal to the desired height of the tee above the ground. With the tee held in place within the device, a length of the tee's shaft extends past the bottom of the tee-setting device. The golfer applies pressure to the top of the tee-setting device to push the point of the tee into the ground until the bottom of the tee-setting device meets the ground. Upon removal of the tee-setting device, the tee remains positioned at exactly the desired height. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130311 | GOLF TEE CLIP - A clip, the clip attaches to a standard golf tee. The clip provides alignment to the target, the clip reduces the resistance normally created by a tee when a ball is hit off of a standard golf tee. The clip normally snaps off the cup of a standard golf tee when a golf ball is hit. By allowing the clip to snap off the cup of a standard golf tee, resistance is reduced. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130312 | Sport training apparatus - A device is disclosed to improve the accuracy of a sport participant in the kicking or handling of a ball. A first version includes a ball attached by a tether to a vertical pole. The pole and tether limit the ball's freedom and allows the ball to rotate about the pole and return to a trainee after being struck by the trainee. A second version provides a frame mounted on the pole whereby the tether is attached to a top section of the pole. A third version includes a frame that rotates about the pole and may accept a plurality of tether attachments. Another version includes a single or double loop attached to the ball through which the tether extends. Yet another version includes a harness that encircles a ball. The ball may be a soccer ball, a baseball, a volleyball, an American football, a medicine ball or a basketball. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130313 | APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING WITH OPTIMAL PHYSICAL MECHANICS OF A SPORTS SWING - An apparatus for teaching optimal swing mechanics of a sport swing including a handle having an end portion; a tapered section coupled to the handle and defining a cavity; a connection member coupled to the handle and extending through the cavity, and an impact member coupled to an end of the connection member. The disclosure further provides an apparatus for teaching the optimal swing mechanics of a baseball or softball swing. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130314 | OVAL BALL, ESPECIALLY RUGBY BALL OR FOOTBALL - An oval ball, in particular rugby ball or football with a casing and with at least one electronic component or module with a transmitter unit, which is arranged in the casing and is held in a defined position, wherein the at least one electronic module is fastened on or in a shape part with a positive and/or material fit, in the region of the tips or in the region of a valve of the casing. In a further embodiment, the module is suspended on nets which are connected to the tip region of the casing in a large-surfaced manner. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130315 | Bladder for a Ball - A bladder for an inflatable ball, in particular a soccer ball, has electrical wiring wherein the wiring is at least partially arranged along a bladder wall to interconnect two electrical or electronic devices. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130316 | Valve for a Ball and Method for Manufacturing Same - A valve for a ball includes a casing and a core. The core is arranged at least partially inside the casing. The core comprises a first sealing area with a plurality of sections which have alternating concave and convex curvatures. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130317 | NEW KIND OF FOOTBALL WITH IMPROVED ROUNDNESS - Ball, composed of an inflatable inner ball from a thin rubbery material and of an outer skin from a leathery material, usually a fibre reinforced flexible plastic, composed in balls of the first type of twelve more or less pentagonal parts and twenty more or less hexagonal parts and in balls of the second type of six more or less square parts and eight more or less hexagonal parts, where most of the edges do not have a kinked form but follow a circular course, so that they follow accurately the curvature of the sphere. An even better approximation of the sphere form is obtained, if the dimensions of the parts are changed in such a way that all corners of these parts are lifted towards the sphere surf ace and do not lie slightly under this surface as in the aforementioned patent. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130318 | Anti-Slip Sheaves for Continuously Variable Transmissions - A sheave for use in a continuously variable transmission comprises a truncated, substantially conical portion having an inner radius, an outer radius and a contact surface extending between the inner radius and the outer radius. The contact surface of the sheave may include a plurality of concentric step features such that the contact surface is graduated between the inner radius and the outer radius. Each step feature may include a rise portion and a pitch portion. The rise portion of each step feature and the pitch portion of each step feature may extend in a circumferential direction on the contact surface. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130319 | BELT AND CHAIN DRIVE WITH KIDNEY-SHAPED TRACTION MEANS - A belt and chain drive for vehicles or for use in drive technology with an input shaft and an output shaft supported on a frame, the input shaft and the output shaft project out of the frame, with the following features: a) gear transmissions with gear wheels, which are embodied as belt and chain drives, are located between the input shaft and the output shaft, b) all of the gear wheels are constantly in rotation during operation, c) the gear transmissions located between the input shaft and the output shaft are embodied as belt and chain drives with toothed belts as traction mechanisms and with pulleys as gear wheels, d) the traction mechanism are reinforced with aramide, Kevlar, carbon fibers or other fibrous materials, is characterized in that e) the traction mechanism is pressed into a kidney-like shape onto the pulleys by at least one component during no-load rotation, and that under the effect of load this component does not touch the traction mechanism, and f) the kidney-like shape of the traction mechanism during no-load rotation is formed by a convex curvature of the driving side and by a concave curvature of the slack side, and g) the kidney-like shape of the traction mechanisms under load is formed by a straight shape of the driving side and by an intensified concave curvature of the slack side. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130320 | CHAIN TENSIONER - A chain tensioner includes a cylindrical cylinder having a closed end, a plunger slidably mounted in the cylinder, and a return spring biasing the plunger. The cylinder is formed with an oil supply passage through which hydraulic oil is introduced into a pressure chamber defined by the plunger and the cylinder. The oil supply passage has an orifice at its end portion facing the pressure chamber. A leak gap is defined between sliding surfaces of the plunger and the cylinder. A damper force is produced by viscous resistance of hydraulic oil flowing from the pressure chamber through the leak gap, and by viscous resistance of hydraulic oil flowing from the pressure chamber into the oil supply passage through the orifice. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130321 | Vehicle hybrid driving apparatus - A vehicle hybrid driving apparatus that has an engine and an electric motor as drive power sources includes: a hydraulic pressure generation mechanism that generates hydraulic pressure using drive force from the engine; and a planetary gear ratio shift device that has three rotating elements: a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element. The first rotating element is linked to the electric motor so that power transmission therebetween is possible, and is also linked to the engine via a clutch so that power transmission therebetween is possible. The second rotating element is selectively linked to a stationary member via a brake. The third rotating element is linked to an output shaft so that power transmission therebetween is possible. The brake connects the second rotating element and the stationary member when the hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic pressure generation mechanism is not supplied. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130322 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - Provided is a transmission system including: a planetary gear, a first-side mechanism including a chamber and a first-side shaft connected to the chamber, at least one transfer arrangement, including a transfer mechanism and a transfer shaft connected thereto and a second-side mechanism including a second-side shaft. The planetary gear includes a planet carrier, at least one planet gear mounted thereon and at least one of a sun gear and a ring gear. The chamber is fluidly coupled to the transfer mechanism for transfer of rotary motion therebetween. The chamber is connected to one of the gear elements: a planet carrier, a sun gear, or a ring gear, the transfer shaft is connected to one of the gear elements: a planet carrier, a planet gear, a sun gear, or a ring gear, and the second-side shaft is connected to one of the gear elements: a planet carrier, a sun gear, or a ring gear. The connection is such that each of the gear elements: a planet carrier, a planet gear, a sun gear, or a ring gear is only coupled to one of the chamber, the transfer shaft and the second-side shaft. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130323 | MULTI-STEP TRANSMISSION - A multi-step transmission with forward and reverse gears comprises planetary gearsets, shafts and shift elements. The input shaft is coupled to the sun gear of gearset (P | 2010-05-27 |
20100130324 | COAXIAL TRANSMISSION - A coaxial transmission, especially a hollow shaft drive, comprising a driving element ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130325 | DIFFERENTIAL OF LIGHTWEIGHT CONSTRUCTION FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - The invention relates to a differential of lightweight construction for motor vehicles having a differential housing made of two sheet metal shells, in which differential bevel gears ( | 2010-05-27 |
20100130326 | Differential Assembly With Preload Adjustment Mechanism - A vehicle differential assembly may include a differential housing rotatable about an axis, a first output assembly, a pinion gear, and a first coupling assembly. The first output assembly may include a first side gear and a first output member. The first side gear may be disposed within the differential housing and may be rotatable about the axis. The first output member may be coupled to the first side gear for rotation therewith. The first coupling assembly may be engaged with the first output assembly and may include a coupling mechanism and a biasing member. The coupling mechanism may extend through an opening in the first output member and may be displaceable relative to the differential housing in a direction generally parallel to the axis. The biasing member may be engaged with the coupling mechanism and may urge the first output assembly into frictional engagement with the differential housing. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130327 | Multi-Drive Fluid Pump - A multi-drive pump may include a pump housing, an inlet port, an outlet port, a primary pump gear, a secondary pump gear, a first internal mechanical drive mechanism coupled to the primary pump gear and a second internal mechanical drive mechanism and an internal electro-magnetic drive mechanism coupled to the secondary pump gear. The pump housing may define an internal volume fluidly coupled to the inlet port and the outlet port. The primary pump gear and the secondary pump gear may be positioned in the pump housing and coupled to one another. Rotation of the primary pump gear and the secondary pump gear draws fluid into the inlet port and expels fluid from the outlet port. The primary pump gear may be rotated by the first internal mechanical drive mechanism and the secondary pump gear may be rotated by the second internal mechanical drive mechanism and the internal electro-magnetic drive mechanism. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130328 | DRIVE LINE OPERATION METHOD - A method of operating a vehicle drive train, whereby the drive train comprises a drive unit, a transmission, and an all-wheel splitter having an automatically operating clutch, positioned between the transmission and the output. The clutch is operated in a continuous slip mode and in such a way that the all-wheel splitter splits the transmission output torque for variable torque distribution to driven axles. The splitting of the output torque to the driven axles is performed by a control unit, implemented into the all-wheel drive strategy, so that the output torque, less a predetermined nominal torque, is transferred to a first axle, and the nominal torque is transferred to a second axle. When defined operating conditions are met, a limiting of the torque, set by the drive unit, and/or the nominal torque, set by the all-wheel strategy, occurs to avoid a thermal overloading of the clutch of the all-wheel splitter. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130329 | Automated Striking And Blocking Trainer With Quantitative Feedback - An automated striking and blocking trainer is disclosed. In some embodiments, the trainer includes the following: a frame; a striking body joined with the frame, the punching bag including one or more strike zone assemblies, the strike zone assemblies each having a light indicator and a striking force sensor; an arm assembly joined with the frame, the arm assembly including one or more arms, each of the one or more arms including a voltage differential sensor and a motion indicator in the form of an electrical motor, wherein the voltage differential between the power being used by the electrical motor when the one or more arms are not struck and when the one or more arms are struck is used to determine a torque of the one or more arms and an input force of a blocking strike; and a head assembly including a processor unit and a display. | 2010-05-27 |
20100130330 | Extremity Therapy Apparatus - Extremity therapy apparatus configured to maintain an extremity in a suitable geometry for performing extremity therapy. The extremity therapy apparatus includes two or more arcuate members which are radially repositionable about a common vertical axis with a support member and/or base member. Each arcuate member is configured to maintain a radial element in a suitable geometry with the extremity for performing the extremity therapy by providing a bias force or movement inhibition in opposition to movement of at least a joint associated with the extremity undergoing the extremity therapy. | 2010-05-27 |