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20080224659 | HAND-HELD, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH RETAINER PORT FOR RECEIVING ONE OR MORE ATTACHABLE WIRELESS AUDIOPHONES FOR IN SITU CHARGING - A hand-held, portable electronic device is provided with a retainer port for removably receiving one or more attachable wireless audiophones for in situ charging of at least one of a first or second attachable wireless audiophone on the hand-held, portable electronic device. In one embodiment of the present invention, a retainer port configured to mate with a first connector of a first attachable wireless audiophone including at least one of a speaker or a microphone at a hand-held, portable electronic device having a device housing with a surface is provided. The retainer port may comprise at least one of a first or a second port socket configured for removably retaining the first attachable wireless audiophone on the hand-held, portable electronic device. The first port socket to communicatively receive the first connector of the first attachable wireless audiophone for in situ charging thereof when the hand-held, portable electronic device is connected to an electrical power source for recharging. The hand-held, portable electronic device includes a first transceiver adapted to communicate with the first attachable wireless audiophone over a short-range wireless communication link. The first attachable wireless audiophone may include a second transceiver adapted to communicate with the hand-held, portable electronic device using the short-range wireless communication link. A single charger may charge a device battery of the hand-held, portable electronic device and a battery of one or more attachable wireless audiophones in situ. | 09-18-2008 |
20090066146 | DETACHABLE SEAT BELT FOR USE WITH A VEHICLE SEAT BELT TO CONTROLLABLY RESTRAIN MOVEMENT OF A PET IN A VEHICLE - A detachable seat belt is provided for use with a vehicle seat belt to controllably restrain movement of a pet in a vehicle. By anchoring the detachable pet seat belt to a prong and a buckle of a vehicle seat belt system safety may be provided to a pet traveling in a vehicle during a collision or sudden deceleration of the vehicle. In one embodiment, a detachable seat belt is provided for use with a pet in a vehicle having a passenger seat belt system including a vehicle seat belt prong and a vehicle seat belt buckle. The detachable seat belt may comprise a harness configured to releasably couple to the vehicle seat belt prong and the vehicle seat belt buckle of the passenger seat belt system. The detachable seat belt may further comprise a seat belt webbing coupled to the harness, the seat belt webbing including a first side length having a first prong attached thereto and a second side length having a first buckle combined with a webbing adjuster for adjusting and locking the seat belt webbing. In this way, when the seat belt webbing is buckled and adjusted snugly across a torso of a pet, the detachable seat belt may hold the pet safely on a vehicle seat during at least one of a sudden deceleration of the vehicle or in response to an impact force that the vehicle to experience in a collision. | 03-12-2009 |
20100033000 | Vehicle Attachable Child Booster Type Car Seat With Lap Belt - A vehicle attachable child booster type car seat is provided with a lap belt for in situ restraining the car seat at a vehicle seat by using a vehicle safety seat belt having a first vehicle seat belt buckle and a first vehicle seat belt prong. In one embodiment of the present invention, a booster seat is configured to have a second vehicle seat belt buckle and a second vehicle seat belt prong to mate with the first vehicle seat belt prong and the first vehicle seat belt buckle, respectively, when positioned on the vehicle seat of a motor vehicle. Therefore, instead of the booster seat being merely an unattached cushion boosting a child occupant's position, may rather be anchored at the vehicle seat while the vehicle safety seat belt's functionality still retained along with an additional restraining capability of the lap belt that can secure a torso portion of the child occupant seated in the booster seat. Such anchoring of a body of the booster seat to a vehicle seat belt system near a seating base of the vehicle seat may avoid dislodging of a seat pan of the booster seat from the top of the vehicle seat in response to an impact force or sudden breaking of the motor vehicle. | 02-11-2010 |
20100220885 | Customizable Audio Earpiece - A customizable audio earpiece includes an ear bud body with an ear bud size of which is adjustable along with some control over its orientation. The ear bud body comprises a ball point with teeth that couples to a mating cavity with teethed groves to movably lock or snap with each other on an ear bud stick. The flexibility of one or more petal shaped fingers provides an adequate level of stiffness for the ear bud when resting therein. The teeth on the ends of these petal shaped fingers releasably couple to teeth on a speaker body. In this way, users have varying size of ears with different size of ear canal cavities and conchal bowls can comfortably use the customizable audio earpiece. | 09-02-2010 |
20110041777 | PET TRAVEL SAFETY DEVICE FOR USE WITH A VEHICLE SEATBELT SYSTEM TO CONTROLLABLY RESTRAIN MOVEMENT OF A PET IN A VEHICLE - A pet travel safety device is provided for use with a vehicle seatbelt system to controllably restrain movement of a pet in a vehicle during a collision or sudden deceleration of the vehicle. In one embodiment, a safety restrainer may secure a pet in a vehicle having a seat belt with a first prong configured to latch into a first buckle of a shoulder/lap belt combination system. The safety restrainer may comprise a restraint assembly including a restraint strap having a first strap end and a second strap end which are configured to releasably couple to each other. The safety restrainer may further comprise a harness configured to couple to the restraint assembly. The harness may include a first harness end and a second harness end. The first harness end comprises a first connector to releasably couple to the first prong and the second harness end comprises a second connector to releasably couple to the first buckle. The harness may include first and second harness portions. The first harness portion includes an intermediate point which is fixedly affixed to the second harness portion that is in turn coupled between the intermediate point of the first harness portion and an intermediate point of the restraint strap between the first strap end and the second strap end such that the second harness portion is fixedly affixed to the restraint strap. | 02-24-2011 |
20110085726 | Tunable Wavelength Illumination System - A lithographic apparatus has an alignment system including a radiation source configured to convert narrow-band radiation into continuous, flat and broad-band radiation. An acoustically tunable narrow pass-band filter filters the broad-band radiation into narrow-band linearly polarized radiation. The narrow-band radiation may be focused on alignment targets of a wafer so as to enable alignment of the wafer. In an embodiment, the filter is configured to modulate an intensity and wavelength of radiation produced by the radiation source and to have multiple simultaneous pass-bands. The radiation source generates radiation that has high spatial coherence and low temporal coherence. | 04-14-2011 |
20120055418 | SEAT BELT FOR DOGS AND CATS CONFIGURED TO COUPLE TO BOTH A BUCKLE AND A PRONG OF A VEHICLE SEATBELT SYSTEM TO PROTECT THEM DURING TRAVEL IN A VEHICLE - A seat belt for dogs and cats is configured to couple to both a buckle and a prong of a vehicle seat belt system. In one embodiment, a detachable seat belt kit comprises a restraint strap having a coupling member and a harness having a securing member which is configured to couple to the coupling member. The harness includes a first connector and a second connector adapted to releasably couple to a first prong and a first buckle of a shoulder/lap belt combination seat belt system respectively. The harness further includes a first harness portion between a first harness end and a second harness end. The first harness portion includes a first intermediate point at which the securing member is affixed. The restraint strap includes a second intermediate point where the coupling member is affixed. | 03-08-2012 |
20120204812 | SEATBELT HARNESSES FOR PETS SUCH AS DOGS FOR USE WITH A VEHICLE SEATBELT SYSTEM TO RESTRAIN THEM FOR PROTECTION DURING THEIR TRAVEL IN A VEHICLE - For protection of a dog during travel in a motor vehicle, in one embodiment, a seatbelt harness may include a restraint portion coupled to an attachment portion that may have first and second connectors which are either fixedly or removably attached to the restraint portion. The first connector may be adapted to attach to a seatbelt or a first belt connector in their default positions and the second connector may be adapted to attach to a second belt connector or an anchor. The positions of first and second connectors may be selected for aligning them with the restraint portion such that the attachment portion to act in conjunction with the restraint portion to enable positioning of the pet on a vehicle seat at an intermediate point along a longitudinal path between the first belt connector and the second belt connector or between the first belt connector and the anchor. | 08-16-2012 |
20130221180 | Portable Document or Notebook Holder for use with Portable Computers such as Netbook or Laptop - A holder such as a portable document/notebook holder is provided for use with a portable computer such as a netbook or a laptop computer to locate a document or a notebook in a front space relative to a user by mounting the holder on to the portable computer and attaching the document or notebook to that holder. Connectors such as clips may be coupled to ends of two arms that are movably coupled to each other on the other ends. For example, a first arm may fold against a second arm in a closed position and the first arm may maintain an open position when the first arm is either partially folded or not folded. For reading hand written notes, instead of repetitive turning of the neck sideways only upward and downward movement of eyeballs is sufficient which avoids straining of neck or back, making the typing much faster and a comfortable task. | 08-29-2013 |
20130258316 | Tunable Wavelength Illumination System - A lithographic apparatus has an alignment system including a radiation source configured to convert narrow-band radiation into continuous, flat and broad-band radiation. An acoustically tunable narrow pass-band filter filters the broad-band radiation into narrow-band linearly polarized radiation. The narrow-band radiation may be focused on alignment targets of a wafer so as to enable alignment of the wafer. In an embodiment, the filter is configured to modulate an intensity and wavelength of radiation produced by the radiation source and to have multiple simultaneous pass-bands. The radiation source generates radiation that has high spatial coherence and low temporal coherence. | 10-03-2013 |
20140073250 | HAND-HELD, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH RETAINER PORT FOR RECEIVING RETAINABLE ACCESSORY FOR USE WIRELESSLY THEREWITH - In one embodiment of the present invention, a hand-held, portable electronic device is provided for use with a retainable accessory including a conductive male member which extends longitudinally from an end of the retainable accessory. The hand-held, portable electronic device may comprise a cavity in an exterior periphery of the hand-held, portable electronic device. The cavity may be configured to receive the conductive male member of the retainable accessory for storing the retainable accessory by inserting the conductive male member of the retainable accessory within the cavity. The retainable accessory may be adapted to communicate with the hand-held, portable electronic device wirelessly via an electronic signal such that the conductive male member of the retainable accessory to enable flow of charge such that the retainable accessory can function by electronically communicating with the hand-held, portable electronic device when physically not connected thereto. The retainable accessory is stored for reuse within the cavity by physically connecting to the hand-held, portable electronic device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140253891 | TUNABLE WAVELENGTH ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - A lithographic apparatus comprises an alignment system including a tunable narrow pass-band filter configured to receive a broad-band radiation and to filter the broad-band radiation into narrow-band linearly polarized radiation. The tunable narrow pass-band filter is further configured to modulate an intensity and wavelength of the narrow-band radiation and to provide a plurality of pass-band filters at a same time or nearly the same time. The alignment system further includes a relay and mechanical interface configured to receive the narrow-band radiation and to adjust a profile of the narrow-band radiation based on physical properties of alignment targets on a substrate. The adjusted narrow-band radiation is focused on the alignment targets using a focusing system. | 09-11-2014 |
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20080244010 | PROVIDING MESSAGE CONTENT TO A USER FOR COMPOSING MESSAGES FOR MAILING AT A HAND-HELD PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and an apparatus are provided for providing message content to a user at a hand-held, portable electronic device for composing an electronic message. The user may use at least a portion of the message content for composing the electronic message for mailing over a network to a recipient. For example, templates with precomposed content may be provided at a cell phone to compose a message body and/or a subject filed of electronic messages for mailing including electronic mail (e-mail) messages. A template with precomposed content may comprise previously created content for use in a message body including a subject filed of the message. The precomposed content may be selectively editable by a user. By using a messaging application that may be capable of communicating with a server in a network, a user may compose the message, such as a reply to an e-mail with desired message content from one or more of the templates. Use of at least one template with precomposed message content in the messaging application at a hand-held, portable electronic device may enable a user to perform mobile emailing with ease. In one embodiment, a method of enabling electronic messaging using an interactive user interface of a hand-held, portable electronic device is provided. The method comprises providing templates with precomposed message content for use in the interactive user interface to compose an electronic message having at least one of a message body or a signature block. The method further comprises enabling a user to compose the message body of the electronic message with at least a portion of the precomposed message content for delivery to an intended recipient. | 10-02-2008 |
20080297338 | AUTOMOTIVE BRAKE LIGHTING - A method and an apparatus are provided for controllably illuminating automotive brake lights. In one embodiment, an automotive brake lighting system comprises a brake light including first and second light sources, a sensor to sense a level of an operating condition associated with at least one of a brake assembly or a brake pedal of a motor vehicle for illuminating the brake light, and a controller configured to monitor information provided by the sensor. The controller, in response to the level of the operating condition, selectively powers the at least one of the first or second light sources of the brake light based at least in part on the monitored information to generate a variable visual indication relating to braking of the motor vehicle from the brake light over a range of at least two different visual indications that indicate a variable braking rate of the motor vehicle over a corresponding range of at least two different braking rates. | 12-04-2008 |
20090066071 | PET SAFETY RESTRAINING BELT FOR USE IN A VEHICLE - A method and an apparatus are provided for enabling a safe and secure environment for a pet traveling in a vehicle during a collision or sudden breaking of the vehicle by using a seat belt system to flexibly restrain the pet with a safety restrainer or a detachable safety belt. In one embodiment, a safety restrainer may secure a pet in a vehicle having a seat belt with a first seat belt prong that latches into a first seat belt buckle. The safety restrainer may comprise a restraint assembly including a restraint strap removably couplable to a body portion of the pet. The restraint assembly may be positionable about the body of the pet and the restrain strap positionable between a pair of fore legs and a pair of hind legs of the pet. The restraint strap may include a first strap end and a second strap end being releasably couplable to each other such that the restraint strap forms a loop having a hole when the first and second strap ends are releasably coupled together. The safety restrainer may further comprise a harness coupled to the restraint assembly. The harness may be releasably couplable to the seat belt of the vehicle for flexibly restraining the pet. The harness may include a first harness end and a second harness end, wherein the first harness end having a second seat belt buckle for releasably coupling to the first seat belt prong and the second harness end having a second seat belt prong for releasably coupling to the first seat belt buckle. | 03-12-2009 |