Patents Assigned to Toska Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7338709
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a security thread whose existence is not clarified, which is prevented beforehand from being removed, which can be attached even to a form of a commodity heretofore regarded as difficult, and whose use purpose range is enlarged, and the security thread can be constituted by a core member comprising a soft magnetic fiber (1) or the soft magnetic fiber and a core thread (4), and a cover member (2, 3) comprising a nonmetal material to cover the core member, constituted by covering the core member comprising the soft magnetic fiber or the soft magnetic fiber and core thread and a semi-hard magnetic material (10?) with the cover member, or constituted by covering the soft magnetic fiber or the core member comprising the soft magnetic fiber and a thermal welding thread (9) with the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignees: Toska Co., Ltd., Unitika Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Wada, Katsumi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 6735895
    Abstract: A fixture of an indication tag has a magnetic body and is used as a marker for preventing, for example, items in a store or furnishings in public facilities from being removed without permission. The fixture is formed by connecting an engagement male portion (2) to one end side of a filamentous coupling portion (4) and an engagement female portion (3) to the other end side to form a loop (R) by engaging the engagement male portion (2) and the engagement female portion (3). The filamentous coupling portion (4) is formed with a filament (40) having a soft magnetic material fiber (41) in order to obscure the location of the magnetic body for the marker preventing it from being removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignees: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Wada, Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 6533155
    Abstract: A method and device for simple and sure connection of a filament-shaped connecting body, comprising forwardly feeding a collecting body of a multiplicity of filament-shaped connecting bodies L comprising a filament part f, a head h and a joining part k into a join groove 6b and a head groove 6a, which are provided on a side of a body 2, from rearwardly of the body 2, receiving the head h into a head support part 4d of a head conveying arm 4, causing the head h to approach a tip end of a hollow needle 5 along a predetermined path from a position spaced from the hollow needle 5, simultaneously causing a rod 10 of a piston 9 to force the joining part k into the hollow needle 5 to fit the same into a latch hole b of the head h to connect the filament part f in a ring-shaped configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kubota, Kenji Masuyama
  • Patent number: 6371293
    Abstract: A fastener assembly having a plurality of fasteners, each including a retaining projection, a fitting portion for engaging with the retaining projection, and a filament portion arranged between the retaining projection and the fitting portion. A first joint member connects with the retaining projections of the fasteners through first cutting portions. A second joint member connects with the fitting portions through second cutting portions, to array the fasteners in a sheet shape. The axes of the retaining projections and the axes of the fitting holes of the fitting portions are formed perpendicular to the sheet-shaped array plane of the fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kubota, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6321434
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing sealing tool comprising a socket (3) and a head (4) at one end and the other end of a linear element (2) respectively and a protrusion (11) for locking the head (4) in a head-insertion hole (10) of the socket (3), which comprises the steps in the mentioned sequence of fixing a core ball (13) and either the socket (3) or the head (4) to the linear element (2), cutting the linear element (2) at a point close to the core ball (13), pulling the linear element (2) to bring the core ball (13) to be set in a cavity (27) and filing a synthetic resin in the cavity (27) in a manner such that the core ball (13) and the socket (3) engageable with the head (4) are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 6317934
    Abstract: A highly flexible annular linking means is formed by jointly connecting by a chain-like member between the first ringpart of a plastic male engagement part and the second ring part of a female engagement part. With this highly flexible annular linking means, a loop of chain-like member can be easily formed for attaching tags onto clothing, etc. An ornamentally effect of the chain-like member will give users high quality feeling. Further, undrawable plastic materials also become available for production of these annular linking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Hiroki, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010004055
    Abstract: A fastener assembly comprising: a plurality of fasteners each including a retaining projection, a fitting portion for engaging with the retaining projection, and a filament portion arranged between the retaining projection and the fitting portion; a first joint member connecting with the retaining projections of the fasteners through first cutting portions; and a second joint member connecting with the fitting portions through second cutting portions, to array the fasteners in a sheet shape. The axes of the retaining projections and the axes of the fitting holes of the fitting portions are formed perpendicular to the sheet-shaped array plane of the fasteners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Applicant: TOSKA CO. LTD
    Inventors: Mikio kubota, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6220434
    Abstract: A fastener assembly which includes a plurality of fasteners each having a retaining projection which has a longitudinal axis, a fitting portion formed with an engaging hole which also has an axis in which the retaining projection can engage, and a filament portion arranged between the retaining projection and the fitting portion. A first joint member is connected with the retaining projections of the fasteners through first cutting portions each having a reduce sectional area. A second joint member is connected with the fitting portions through second cutting portions. In this manner, the fasteners are fixed to and securely supported by the first and second joint members to be arrayed in a plane. The axes of the retaining projections and the axes of the fitting holes of the fitting portions are formed perpendicular to the plane of the fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikio Kubota, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5950901
    Abstract: Two transverse rod portions of a securing piece having the transverse rod portion at the both ends of a filament portion respectively are simultaneously driven through hollow needles 22 and 22 while journaling one end of a lever 13 so as to approach or separate from a grip portion 12 formed on a body 11 by oscillating, journaling one end of a support table 14 having a bottom support table 14a at the bottom of the body 11, making the front of the support 14 approach or separate from the body 11 by interlocking with the lever 13 and oscillating, and inserting two hollow needles 22 and 22 provided for the bottom of the body 11 into two needle holes 21 and 21 opened in the bottom support table 14a and moreover, an object 7 to be fixed is fixed to an object 6 to be worked by operating the lever 13 while mounting the object 6 to be worked and the object 7 to be fixed on the bottom support table 14a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 5837182
    Abstract: A process of molding a synthetic resin screw includes upper mold members 2 and 4, lower mold members 3 and 5, and four sets of slide cores 2a, 4a, 3a and 5a supported by the respective mold members and withdrawable in directions parallel to a parting plane between the upper mold members and the lower mold members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignees: Toska Co., Ltd., Optec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Hiroki, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5700415
    Abstract: A molded article having a large undercut part is efficiently produced by a method of molding a synthetic resin with the use of an apparatus comprising an outer mold (S) and an inner mold (N) arranged so as to form a cavity (C) inside the outer mold (S), said inner mold (N) comprising a central mold segment having a part whose size is reduced toward its head and mold segments (6, 7) for forming an inner surface of a molded article which are supported so as to be able to meet and get apart from each other around the central mold segment (4) and divided into a plurality of separate segments, wherein said mold segments for forming the inner surface of the molded article are rendered movable toward the center of the apparatus by moving the central mold segment and wherein the inner mold (N) is withdrawn in the form of its size reduced as a whole from inside the molded article (21) supported in the outer mold (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignees: Toska Co., Ltd., Optec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Hiroki, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5669543
    Abstract: A hollow needle for tag attachers, which comprises a blade (2) made by press working of a thin metal plate and a shank (3) of a synthetic resin integrally secured at a rear end part of the blade (2), wherein the blade (2) includes a front end part (2a) which has in a middle part thereof a semicircular shape in section and is formed in an outer surface portion thereof with a resistance reducing part (4) provided by partly depressing the outer periphery thereof, whereby the area of contact of a front end part of the hollow needle with an object partly through which the needle is applied in use is reduced and the needle has a desirable characteristic such that it can be applied straight in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 5641446
    Abstract: In a method of molding a tag pin assembly P having a plurality of tag pins p each including a head 1, a filament portion 2 and a transverse rod portion 3, and implanted on one connecting rod 5 via connecting portions 4, the method produces a tag pin assembly under a ultra-close contact state by allowing balanced pressures to act on thin wall surfaces between adjacent cavities by supplying a molten resin through a main runner portion 30 connected to an injection molding machine, one first sub-runner portion 31 and a U-shape branched second sub-runner portion 32 to cavities of four tag pins 4 for one second sub-runner portion 32 in a cascade system by halving the molten resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Kato
  • Patent number: 5595702
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a synthetic resin screw includes upper mold members 2 and 4, lower mold members 3 and 5, and four sets of slide cores 2a, 4a, 3a and 5a supported by the respective mold members and withdrawable in directions parallel to a parting plane between the upper mold members and the lower mold members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignees: Toska Co., Ltd., Optec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyohisa Hiroki, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5497930
    Abstract: A tag attacher constructed so that a feed member (18) from which a tooth (18f) engageable with a connecting portion (c) of a tag pin (t) projects and a stopper member (19) from which a tooth (19c) engageable in parallel with the tooth (18f) with the connecting portion projects extend in parallel with each other, the feed member (18) having a head portion (18a) and a lever portion (18b) extended from the head portion (18a), the feed member (18) being turned directly in accordance with the forward and backward movements of a movable member (9) so as to transfer the tag pin (t) to a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 5472131
    Abstract: A tag attacher constructed so that a feed member (18) from which a tooth (18f) engageable with a connecting portion (c) of a tag pin (t) projects and a stopper member (19) from which a tooth (19c) engageable in parallel with the tooth (18f) with the connecting portion projects extend in parallel with each other, the feed member (18) having a head portion (18a) and a lever portion (18b) extended from the head portion (18a), the feed member (18) being turned directly in accordance with the forward and backward movements of a movable member (9) so as to transfer the tag pin (t) to a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 5471727
    Abstract: A power operation type tag pin fitting machine wherein a hollow needle is protrusively disposed in front of a main body, a push rod for pushing a transverse rod of the hollow needle and a cylinder for driving the push rod are disposed on the axis of the hollow needle, and an operation member having a portion for protecting the hollow needle is so supported as to move back and forth with respect to a machine frame, is so biased by a spring as to protrude forward, and moves back when the hollow needle is punched to pierce through a product during a fitting operation of the tag pin and automatically operates the cylinder at a predetermined position. The tag pin can be fitted to the product by merely putting the main body on the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Kubota
  • Patent number: 4854014
    Abstract: The fastener disclosed by the invention comprises a filament, a head provided to one end of the filament, and a socket provided to the other end of the filament, these parts being integrally formed of synthetic resin, the head having a groove extending in the direction of its axis and a rib formed in the groove, the head also having a skirt on the head around the groove and flaring away from the front end of the head, the skirt being interrupted at one part by the groove, the socket having an insertion hole in which an annular flange is provided for engagement with the skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 4714569
    Abstract: A process for preparing a conductive coating composition comprising the steps of forming a graft copolymer onto the surfaces of graphite and carbon black, adding an azo compound to the reaction system to complete the reaction, and curing the resulting product to form a network structure inside the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishino, Kazuo Okabe
  • Patent number: D353626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toyohisa Hiroki