Patents Assigned to Nichimen Corporation
  • Patent number: 6071859
    Abstract: This invention provides a red tide eliminating composition comprising:(a) at least one (polyoxyalkylene) fatty acid ester represented by the formula (1)RCOO (AO)nH (1)wherein R represents a C.sub.7-22 alkyl or alkenyl group, n represents an integer of 1 to 30 and AO represents a C.sub.2-4 alkylene oxide, and(b) at least one powdery adsorbent; wherein, based on the total weight of the above at least one (polyoxyalkylene) fatty acid ester (a) represented by the formula (1) and the above at least one adsorbent (b), the above at least one (polyoxyalkylene) fatty acid ester (a) represented by the formula (1) is present in an amount of 1 to 70 wt. % and the above at least one adsorbent (b) is present in an amount of 99 to 30 wt. %; and a method for eliminating red tide by use of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignees: New Japan Chemical Co., Ltd., Mikio Nakanishi, Nichimen Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Ogawa, Kenji Uemura, Mikio Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 5552850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a handle grip to be attached to the shutter button side of a disposable camera, which is equipped with a sprol of film. It comprises: a box-like body whose top plate is long enough to reach the shutter button of the disposable camera, and has an aperture to be in alignment with the shutter button when the handle grip is attached to the disposable camera by inserting the shutter button side of the disposable camera body; a push button fitted in the aperture of the top plate of the handle grip body, the push button being vertically movable, and being spring-biased upward and being adapted to push the shutter button to release the shutter at the end of the downward stroke of the push button when pushed down; a voice sound generator means for electronically generation g artificial voice utterance to attract the attention of children to be snaped; and a switching means to be closed by the push button on the way to the end of the downward stroke, thereby energizing the voice sound generator means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Nichimen Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5540500
    Abstract: A compressive sealed bag for compressible articles such as clothing comprising a sealed bag body of a plastic film having sealing fasteners formed at an opening portion of the bag body and a check valve formed with a flat pipe of a plastic film and provided at any marginal portions of the bag body other than the opening portion and having a base end inserted into the bag body and a tip end projecting to the outside for discharging the air from the bag body, said sealing fastener being provided at least two positions at the opening portion of the bag body, said tip end of the check valve provided at the marginal portion of the bag body being enveloped in a covering envelope of a plastic film having a discharge outlet of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignees: Nichimen Corporation, Kashiwara Seitai Co., Ltd., Kaken Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5322005
    Abstract: A coffee making apparatus comprises a roaster for roasting dried coffee beans, a tank having a meshed case for temporarily storing roasted coffee beans, a blower which sends air to the roasted coffee beans in the meshed case to cool the roasted coffee beans, a milling/extracting unit receiving the cooled roasted coffee beans from the tank for milling the roasted coffee beans and thereafter extracting a coffee solution therefrom by pouring hot water, a coffee server for receiving the coffee solution which has been extracted, and a case in which the roaster, the tank, and the milling/extracting unit are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Nichimen Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Enomoto
  • Patent number: 5237776
    Abstract: A sealing device for movable panels such as doors, windows or the like, the panels being supported by rails and comprising a pivoting member extending from the support rail, the pivoting member has first and second ends and is rotatable between a normal horizontal position and an engagible vertical position. A weighted member is attached to the first end for maintaining the pivoting member in the normal horizontal position. A sealing member extends from the second end, the sealing member is engagible against a side of the panel to seal the same only when the pivoting member is in the vertical position. The pivoting member is only movable and maintainable in the engaged vertical position by a retractable actuator means capable of applying a sufficient force to move the weighted member and maintain the pivoting member in the engaged vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignees: Tokyo Shutter Co., Ltd., Nichimen Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 5199478
    Abstract: Air-tightening devices for folding doors and windows which are consisted of a plurality of panels connected by joint members to swivel about shafts received by bearing flanges of the joint members so that they are stretched or folded. The shafts and their bearing flanges are located outside of the plane of panels. Filler wedges air-tightly embracing said shafts and bearing flanges have smoothly resilient extensions which are coplanar with said plane and are able to make air-tight abutment with sealing liners fitted to lintel rails, independently from another sealing liners provided to lateral sides of the joint members and/or of the panels and being able to make air-tight abutment with the other sides when the panels are stretched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Nichimen Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Kubota
  • Patent number: 5083502
    Abstract: A coffee making machine for automatically producing coffee solution from unroasted coffee beans comprises a roaster for holding coffee beans and roasting the dried coffee beans into roasted coffee beans, a milling/extracting unit for grinding the roasted coffee beans into ground coffee and extracting coffee solution from the ground coffee, a blower for blowing air into the milling/extracting unit to cool the roasted coffee beans before they are ground, a pouring unit for pouring hot water onto the ground coffee and extracting the coffee solution therefrom, a coffee server for receiving the coffee solution from the milling/extracting unit, and means for supplying the coffee solution from the milling/extracting unit to the coffee server. The operation of the roaster, the supply of roasted coffee beans from the roaster to the milling/extracting unit, and the operation of the milling/extracting unit, the blower and the pouring unit are automatically performed at predetermined timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignees: Nichimen Corporation, Kazuo Enomoto
    Inventor: Kazuo Enomoto
  • Patent number: 5078145
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device is disclosed in which ultrasonic pulses are transmitted for a subject body in changing the position and direction of a probe, and a plurality of two-dimensional tomographic image signals obtained by detecting the reflected pulses are synthesized to form a three-dimensional image. A signal for identifying the position in three-dimensional coordinates based on the position and direction of the probe at the time of detection is given to individual picture element signals composing in the detected two-dimensional tomographic image. A plurality of two-dimensional tomographic image signals having identified positions in three-dimensional coordinates are obtained by the similar processes to described in the above in changing the position and direction of the probe, and a plurality of the picture element signals having the same coordinates are addition-averaged and are stored in the memory area corresponding to the coordinates in the three-dimensional memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Nichimen Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Furuhata