Patents Represented by Attorney John J. Cantarella
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Patent number: 5048577Abstract: A cylindrical valve having a fuel dispensing passage and a vapor receiving passage therein which are both simultaneously blocked or unblocked by butterfly valves controlled by a plunger which protrudes from one end of the cylinder and has a rack defined thereon which engages with pinion gears which in turn engage two valve shafts and rotate the valve plates. A spring or similar biasing element moves the plunger to the position under which the valve plates close the passages whenever the plunger is not forcibly depressed against the spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1989Date of Patent: September 17, 1991Inventor: James Kuusisto
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Patent number: 5036655Abstract: A lawn or turf aerating, dethatching, and grooming apparatus which derives the power needed to perform these functions from a movement of the apparatus against the lawn or turf surface that is desired to be affected by the apparatus. The apparatus is adaptable to a wide variety of lawn maintenance devices and particularly as a replacement front roller for a reel-type lawn mower.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1990Date of Patent: August 6, 1991Inventor: E. Ray Holloway
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Patent number: 5031919Abstract: A portable version of the common Skee-Ball game which includes the improvements of: a ball return track which is non-dependant upon gravity for the return of the ball to the player of the game; a runner extending from the ramp to the play area of adjustable length; an electronic score recorder and score display; a ball stop for limiting the ball from leaving the ball return track and a ball return track which is adjustable in length.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Inventor: Donald Dixon
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Patent number: 4925090Abstract: The present invention discloses a newspaper delivery signaling apparatus consisting primarily of a hinge having a plate attached thereto and a signaling item which drops when the plate is moved by the insertion of a newspaper into a newspaper holder and which item hangs by a cord or like item to be viewed from a distance, thereby avoiding trips to the newspaper holder in inclement weather as well as repeated trips.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1989Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Inventor: Harold R. Barrett
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Patent number: 4618265Abstract: A clock which displays time in base sixteen for those familiar with hexidecimal, e.g., computer specialists or computer hobbyists.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1985Date of Patent: October 21, 1986Inventor: Richard A. Wadowski
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Patent number: 4613144Abstract: A steering system for vehicles in which the steered angle ratio of a rear wheel (20) to a front wheel (7) is controllable in accordance with the vehicle speed.The steering system is improved by providing a signal variation moderating device (34) for moderating the variation of a vehicle speed signal (u), so that even in a sudden change of the vehicle speed, the steered angle ratio is allowed to be moderate in the correction thereof.The signal variation moderating means may be an integral circuit or a delay circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1984Date of Patent: September 23, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshimi Furukawa
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Patent number: 4608784Abstract: A work spindle device having a rotor which allows a workpiece to be fed and ejected quickly and permits the workpiece to be machined simultaneously at opposite ends thereof. A clamp member having collets on opposite ends and a central axial through hole for insertion of the workpiece therein is disposed in the rotor. Each of the collets is insertable in one of a pair of tapered holes defined in the rotor so as to be pitted therein. A spring means normally urges the collets and the corresponding tapered holes into interfitting engagement for clamping the workpiece in the rotor. The work spindle device also has a mechanism for releasing the collets and the tapered holes from their interfitting engagement to unclamp the workpiece from the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1984Date of Patent: September 2, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Matsuhiro Fukushima, Hitoshi Kaifu, Yoshinori Oyobiki
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Patent number: 4598788Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle with front and rear wheels suspended from a vehicle body through a suspending mechanism, comprising a front wheel steering mechanism for steering the front wheels at an angle in accordance with a steering operation of a driver, and a rear wheel steering mechanism for steering the rear wheels at an angle in accordance with a travelling state of the vehicle. The rear wheel steering mechanism has an arrangement for determining a steered angle correction quantity of the rear wheels in correspondence with a cushioning state of the wheel suspending mechanism, and an arrangement for specifying the steering angle of the rear wheels in accordance with the steered angle correction quantity.The cushioning state may be ascertained by detecting a cushioning stroke of the suspending mechanism or a roll angle of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1985Date of Patent: July 8, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuya Serizawa, Shoichi Sano, Yoshimi Furukawa
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Patent number: 4597462Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle having a steerable front wheel (5) and a steerable rear wheel (11), in which the rear wheel is steered in accordance with a travelling state quantity (.alpha., .nu.) substantially influenced by a disturbance from outside of the vehicle and a vehicle speed (V) of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1985Date of Patent: July 1, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Sano, Yoshimi Furukawa
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Patent number: 4596074Abstract: A curvilinear measuring device having a base plate containing a retaining tapered track in which a slide member moves. On top of the slide member is a digital readout device with a lit LCD on top. The slide device can be removed in turn end for end for making concave measurements. A contact ball moves along the track and electronically changes the voltage which is digitally displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1985Date of Patent: June 24, 1986Inventor: Philip J. Allen
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Patent number: 4592561Abstract: A steering system for vehicles comprising a steering wheel, a front steering sub-system including a drive pinion interlocked to be rotatable with the steering wheel, a rack shaft having a first rack engaged with the drive pinion and a second rack separated from the first rack, and a driven pinion engaged with the second rack; and a rear steering sub-system including an input shaft operatively connected to the driven pinion, an off-centered pin provided at one end of the input shaft, a pair of rear tie-rods adapted each respectively to turn either of the rear wheels, and a joint member relatively rotatably connected to the off-centered pin and both of the rear tie-rods. The joint member has a longitudinal axis thereof extending transversely of the vehicle. The axis of the off-centered pin is located substantially on the longitudinal axis. The rear tie-rods are connected to the joint member substantially on the longitudinal axis substantially at the same level as the axis of the off-centered pin.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1984Date of Patent: June 3, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimi Furukawa, Shoichi Sano
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Patent number: 4591054Abstract: Two master sets of seven seventh cut cards having labels denoting major grocery categories thereon. Fourteen subsets of physically smaller cards. Each subset has seven seventh cut cards with labels denoting grocery subcategories and each subset being related to one major card. In a given set each master card may be a different color. The subset cards are preferably the same color as the associated master card.One set of master cards and associated subset cards may be placed in one pocket of a purse and the other cards in another other pocket of the same purse.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1984Date of Patent: May 27, 1986Inventor: Carolyn S. Blossom
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Patent number: 4589901Abstract: An apparatus for bending a glass sheet has at least a lower mold, a conveyor device for conveying the heated glass sheet to a prescribed position over the lower mold, and a plurality of rolls for supporting the glass sheet in the prescribed position. A method of bending a glass sheet is carried out by utilizing the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a device for lowering the rolls to a position below the shaping surface of the lower mold, and an arrangement in the lower mold for accommodating the rolls which have been lowered. The apparatus may additionally have an upper mold coacting with the lower mold. The method comprises the steps of lowering the rolls below the shaping surface of the lower mold, transferring the glass sheet from the rolls onto the shaping surface of the lower mold while the rolls are lowered, and bending the glass sheet into conformity with the shaping surface of the lower mold under gravitational forces.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1985Date of Patent: May 20, 1986Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Yoshizawa, Masaaki Nushi, Kaoru Sakurai, Hirotaro Usui, Naohiro Iida, Togo Tanaka, Seiichiro Honjo
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Patent number: 4585086Abstract: A frame material for a motor vehicle comprising a structure having an elongated hollow body of a rectangular cross section and a honeycomb member having a multiplicity of independent chambers and arranged in the hollow body such that central axes of the chambers are directed substantially perpendicularly to longer sides of the rectangular cross section of the hollow body. A frame construction for use in a motor vehicle includes the frame material as a main frame interconnecting a head pipe and a rear fork pivot rectilinearly in side elevation.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1984Date of Patent: April 29, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kinuo Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 4583172Abstract: A motor vehicle including a vehicle body, a front road wheel disposed in the front part of the vehicle body, a rear road wheel disposed in the rear part of the vehicle body, an engine for driving at least either of the front and rear road wheels, and a steering wheel for steering at least either of the front and rear road wheels. To facilitate the steering operation, the motor vehicle is improved by means of a transverse sliding angle detection system for detecting the transverse sliding angle of the vehicle body, and a moving direction display unit for visually displaying the moving direction of the vehicle body on the basis of an output of the transverse sliding angle detection system.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1983Date of Patent: April 15, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimi Furukawa, Shoichi Sano
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Patent number: 4582334Abstract: A steering system for a vehicle having a steering wheel and front and rear wheels, including a front steering sub-system for steering the front wheels in accordance with the steering angle of the steering wheel and a rear steering sub-system for steering the rear wheels in the same and opposite directions with respect to the front wheels in accordance with the steering angle of the steering wheel. The steering system is provided with a rack and pinion type variable-ratio mechanism for varying the ratio of the steered angle of at least either of the front or rear wheels to the steering angle of the steering wheel in accordance with the magnitude of the steering angle of the steering wheel. The design freedom in setting a functional relation between the steering angle of the steering wheel and the turning curvature of the vehicle is thus maximized.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1983Date of Patent: April 15, 1986Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Tashiro, Yoshimi Furukawa, Shoichi Sano
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Patent number: 4580360Abstract: Each label on a sheet of labels is marked or markable with the name of a food item or category and/or the days of the week. The sheet is affixed to a backing member which has a magnetic strip to facilitate attachment to a substrate such as the wall of a refrigerator. Each label has a tab to facilitate removal from said sheet. A pencil is removably attached to backing member to facilitate marking the labels.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1984Date of Patent: April 8, 1986Inventor: Robert J. Gribb
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Patent number: 4579199Abstract: A remote operation type damping force control mechanism for a hydraulic damper including a cylinder, a piston, and a hollow piston rod having therein an oil path interconnecting a pair of chambers separated from each other by the piston in the cylinder. The mechanism comprises an adjustment rod rotatably inserted in the hollow piston rod and provided at the inner end thereof with an orifice plate having a plurality of orifices of different diameters, a remote operation part provided with an operation member, a control cable operatively integrally connected with the operation member and lead out of the remote operation part, and a driving mechanism interposed between the control cable and the adjustment rod for driving to rotate the adjust rod in accordance with the rotation of the operation member of the remote operation part.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1985Date of Patent: April 1, 1986Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Showa SeisakushoInventors: Sumio Nakayama, Shizumasa Tsukamoto, Masahiro Hirano
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Patent number: 4578559Abstract: A plasma etching method employing a parallel-plate type plasma etching device which comprises a reaction chamber, a substantially plate-like ground electrode and a substantially plate-like counter electrode both disposed in parallel with each other within the reaction chamber. The method includes the steps of placing a material to be etched on the ground electrode and carrying out an electric discharge with a spacing between the electrodes being substantially 3 to 10 mm. Etching is performed exactly at a high speed in an anisotropic form without requiring a high degree of vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1984Date of Patent: March 25, 1986Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Hijikata, Akira Uehara, Hisashi Nakane
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Patent number: D307568Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1989Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Inventor: Guadalupe A. Lopez