Patents Represented by Attorney Jordan B. Bierman, Muserlian and Lucas Bierman
  • Patent number: 5913078
    Abstract: In a camera for receiving an electric wave including position information from a satellite of Global Positioning System and for recording a photographing position together with a photographed image, wherein a photographing attitude of the camera is arbitrarily changed in accordance with an image to be photographed, the camera comprises an enabling device to make the receiving of the electric wave through an antenna possible regardless of the photographing attitude of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kimura, Masanori Kawai, Yoshinori Mochizuki, Haruhiko Momose
  • Patent number: 5911450
    Abstract: A wire harness including a plurality of wires surrounded by an outer tube wherein the outer surface thereof has an axial line drawn thereon. If the harness becomes twisted during handling and before installation, the line becomes helical and, since it is of contrasting color to that of the surface to which it is applied, it is readily visible to the installer. To correct the undesirable twisting, the wire harness is counter-rotated until the line becomes straight once again. The device can then be installed in the usual manner. If installation of a twisted wire harness is attempted, the additional distances which the branches must travel will make them too short to reach their intended connection points. A device for applying the line to the outer surface is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shibata, Yuji Ikuta, Tamiyuki Makito, Yasushi Atsumi
  • Patent number: 5912511
    Abstract: The harness system adapts to a first type of vehicle having a tail ledge with right- or left-had drive and a second type of vehicle having no tail ledge with right- or left-hand drive. The harness wiring is so arranged that a front harness and a combined harness integrating floor harness and rear harness can be commonly used for these four types of vehicles. Only a combined harness integrating cowl harness and instrument harness is differently wired for the right- or left-hand drive vehicle. The front harness and the two sets of combined harnesses are connected to one another through a connecting means located on the same side, either on the right or left side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hidaka
  • Patent number: 5907737
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material processing apparatus comprises a circulating path through which processing solution in a processing tank is circulated; a pump for circulating the processing solution through the circulating path; and an oxidation promoting section provided to at least one of a part of the processing tank and a part of the circulating path, the oxidation promoting section having a depth shallower than that of the processing tank and a upper portion open to atmosphere, wherein a flow speed of the processing solution at the oxidation promoting section is not slower than 1.times.10.sup.3 mm/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Isokawa, Kenji Yamanouchi, Hiroshi Furuuchi
  • Patent number: 5904995
    Abstract: A stimulable phosphor is disclosed, comprising a rare earth activated alkaline earth metal fluorohalide stimulable phosphor, wherein the rare earth of the phosphor is a rare earth metal selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce and Gd and the content of the rare earth metal in the surface portion of the particles of the stimulable phosphor being less that in a central portion of said particles. Disclosed is also a radiation image conversion panel comprising a support having thereon a phosphor layer containing the stimulable phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Maezawa, Haruhiko Masutomi, Yasushi Nakano, Hideaki Wakamatsu
  • Patent number: 5904595
    Abstract: The connector housing carries a radially outwardly extending flange at its perimeter. The flange is provided with a guide surface, tapered towards the rear of the connector, whereby the shield cover is aligned. This prevents the leading edge of the shield cover from contacting the end face of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumiyoshi Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 5902138
    Abstract: A branch junction box containing a flexible printed circuit sheet includes circuit terminals and other parts which are easily mounted. A first insulation plate is provided on one of its faces, with a plurality of printed circuit terminals vertically fixed therethrough. On its other face, the first insulation plate carries a flexible printed circuit sheet, the printed circuit of which is electrically connected to the circuit terminals. The surface of the insulating plate facing the circuit terminals may be provided with bus bar wiring patterns and corresponding bus bar terminals. These circuit terminals and bus bar terminals are branch-connected to wiring harnesses in a proper and reliable way through connectors formed in the casing of the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Murakami
  • Patent number: 5903156
    Abstract: A method for detecting a trouble location in wire harnesses can easily detect a position of trouble such as breakage, short circuit, or the like in the wire harnesses without bringing enlargement and complication into the wire harnesses. This method includes the steps of: setting each of electric wires (2) in a main line part (4) and a branch line part (5) of a wire harness (1) as a sensing line, the wires (2) being juxtaposed to each other in the respective parts (4, 5); transmitting a pulse wave in a measuring line of a trouble electric wire in the wire harness and the sensing line corresponding to the measuring line at their ends by a pulse generating unit (11); receiving a pulse wave reflected at a trouble point and measuring a difference in time between the transmitted pulse wave and the reflected pulse wave by a synchroscope (12); and computing a distance from a measuring point to the trouble point in accordance with the difference in time and a pulse propagation velocity by a computing unit (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Matsumaru, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Motonori Kido
  • Patent number: 5903444
    Abstract: An electrical connection box having an L-shaped rib on the inside wall of its lower cover to engage a fitting projection located on the bottom face of an electrical unit housed within the box. The connection between the side wall of the lower cover and the electrical unit reinforces the area adjacent the notch through which the wires pass and securely maintains the electric unit inside the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Sekido, Hideo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5903445
    Abstract: A first description of relevant characteristic of electrical elements is applied to a portion of a box containing the elements, preferably when the box is molded. When a second description is needed in lower volume as compared to the first description, a label having the second description is adhered over the first description to provide the desired display as well as to conceal the first description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Oda
  • Patent number: 5899611
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming a toner image on both sides of a sheet, includes a photoreceptor on which a first toner image and a second toner image are formed by toner image forming devices; a second image carrying belt onto which the second toner image is transferred from the photoreceptor; a first transferring device to transfer the first toner image from the photoreceptor to a first side of the sheet; a second transferring device to transfer the second toner image from the second image carrying belt to a second side of the sheet; a fixing device having a first fixing roller for fixing the first toner image onto the first side of the sheet and a second fixing roller for fixing the second toner image onto the second side of the sheet, the first fixing roller coming in contact with the second fixing roller so as to form a nip section therebetween; the second image carrying belt having a flat belt surface on which the sheet is conveyed from the photoreceptor toward a separating section at which the sheet is separa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Haneda, Yotaro Sato, Kunio Shigeta
  • Patent number: 5897402
    Abstract: A releasable locking connector wherein the terminals are locked in place by a retainer which has an engagement position and a release position. In the former, a portion of the retainer bears against the rear of the terminals so that they cannot be removed. Also, a lance is provided on the terminals which bears against a stop surface of the housing. To permit removal of the terminal, a tool opening is provided so that the lance can be depressed to a position in which it no longer abuts the stop surface. When the retainer is in the engagement position, a closure thereon overlies the tool opening, thereby preventing entry of unwanted foreign material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Sasai, Hideto Nakamura, Hisashi Konoya
  • Patent number: 5895687
    Abstract: A method for producing a light-sensitive material. The method includes the steps of: discharging coating solution, including the light-sensitive material, from a coater die; forming a curtain layer of coating solution by causing the coating solution to fall from a die lip of the coater die in which the curtain layer is formed with an edge guide in which an end of the edge guide is arranged in the vicinity of the die lip and the other end of the edge guide is inclined toward the coater die in relation to the vertical line from the die lip; and coating a support with the coating solution by conveying the support at the downstream end of the curtain layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kondo, Koji Fukazawa, Akira Nishiwaki
  • Patent number: 5893448
    Abstract: An adapter feeding apparatus which is capable of feeding adapters (1) in a predetermined position to the next process step at a stable and constant pace is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Miyamoto, Takao Fuyushiba, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Toshiaki Katoh, Katsuya Yamanaka, Kazuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5892033
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metal chelate dye which is composed of a metal ion and a ligand that is a methine dye having 2 or more bonding positions capable of coordinate bond to the metal ion at the bonding position. A thermal transfer recording material, an ink used for an ink jet image recording process and a color toner for electrostatic image recording process are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tawara Komamura, Akira Onishi, Tatsuo Tanaka, Yoriko Nakayama, Mari Honda, Norio Miura
  • Patent number: 5888686
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, the toner containing polymer particles having a carboxyl group on the surface thereof in the range of5.times.10.sup.-11 mol/cm.sup.2 .ltoreq.A.ltoreq.3.times.10.sup.-9 mol/cm.sup.2wherein A represents an amount of the carboxyl group obtained using a conductometric titration method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Tomoe Kikuchi, Kenji Hayashi, Yoshiki Nishimori, Mikio Kohyama
  • Patent number: 5890040
    Abstract: A toner container for use in an image forming apparatus having a toner receiving section, includes a cylindrical container body in which toner is stored, the cylindrical container body having a toner discharging end and provided with a spiral rib provided on its inner circumferential surface so that toner is conveyed toward the toner discharging end by the spiral rib when the cylindrical container body is rotated, the cylindrical container body further having a cylindrical portion with a discharging port on the toner discharging end; and a sleeve member mounted around the cylindrical portion so that the discharging port is closed by the sleeve member, the sleeve member movable in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion so that when the toner container is attached to the toner receiving section of the image forming apparatus, the sleeve member is moved so as to open the toner discharging port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Matsuoka, Masahiro Shigetomi
  • Patent number: 5888089
    Abstract: Opposed inner surfaces of lower and upper casings making up a connection box are flat, and wire arrangement grooves are formed in the inner surfaces. Insertion holes communicate with the wire arrangement grooves in specified positions and are open to the outer surfaces of the casings. A wire is laid into the wire arrangement grooves and is pressed into the slots of the cramping terminals mounted in the insertion holes. The tabs on the cramping terminals project from the outer surfaces of the casings. The casings are held together by nuts and bolts or other devices after the flat inner surfaces are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Konoya, Nori Inoue
  • Patent number: 5888715
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support and provided thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the material comprises a water-insoluble alcoholic compound having a hydroxy group forming an intramolecular hydrogen bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kunimasa Hiyama, Hiroshi Kita, Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 5889337
    Abstract: A vehicle electronic apparatus (1) includes an electronic control section (2) received in an accommodation cavity (23) in an instrument panel (22) in a vehicle for effecting an electronic function in the vehicle, a switch section (3) detachably attached to the electronic control section (2) for controlling the electronic control section (2), and a cover panel (4) to be fitted in the accommodating cavity (23) in the instrument panel (22) to cover the switch section (3) at the front side. It is possible to use in common the electronic section (2) which is an expensive electronic element and also to design the cover panel (4) with flexibility. The switch section (3) can be produced in compliance with the designed cover panel (4). A common use of electronic parts will achieve a reduction of cost and enhance a flexibility in design of an interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ito, Kenji Okamoto, Hiroaki Yamazaki, Tomokazu Ito, Yukio Kide