Patents Represented by Law Firm Armstrong, Nikaido, Marmelstein, Kubovcik & Murray
  • Patent number: 5143270
    Abstract: A system for assembling a motorcar vehicle body is divided into a first-floor portion and a second-floor portion. The first-floor portion has a main working line provided with a vehicle body assembling station, a floor panel assembling line, and a floor panel parts working line. The second-floor portion has another floor panel parts working line and a roof panel working line. There are provided apparatuses for charging floor panel consitituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the first-floor portion to a floor panel assembling line, and for lowering floor panel constituting parts worked in the floor panel parts working line disposed on the second-floor portion from the second-floor portion to charge them to the floor panel assembling line so that these constituting parts are combined together in the floor panel assembling line to assemble the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Hamada, Keizaburo Ohtaki, Takashi Kubo, Hiroshi Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 5144060
    Abstract: An emulsifying agent for emulsion polymerization comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (i) betaine esters of polyoxyalkylene alkyl ethers, (ii) betaine esters of polyoxyalkylene alkylphenyl ethers, (iii) betaine esters of polyoxyalkylene dialkylphenyl ethers, (iv) betaine esters of polyoxyalkylene phenyl ethers having two or more benzene nuclei, and (v) betaine esters of polyoxyalkylene polyol ethers. This emulsifying agent is suitable for use in the emulsion polymerization of polymer emulsions capable of forming a film having an excellent water resistance, transparency, and smoothness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Lion Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morita, Eiichi Hirota, Yasuo Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 5144529
    Abstract: A capacitor comprising a multiplicity of needlelike metal particles dispersed in a synthetic resin film and so oriented that the axes thereof are positioned in parallel to the surface of the film, and an electrode provided on each of opposite surfaces of the synthetic resin film, the metal particles having a diameter of up to 0.1 .mu.m, a length 5 to 10 times the diameter and a specific surface area of 30 to 100 m.sup.2 /gr and being covered with a dielectric oxide over the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Fujikin Soft Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5142740
    Abstract: A toilet covering hinge assembly for mounting a toilet covering to the rear of a toilet for rotation of the toilet covering about a hinge axis between a lowered and a raised position. The hinge assembly includes a hinge element which is provided at the rear end of the toilet covering and is formed with a bore extending along the hinge axis. A hinge shaft extends through the bore in a rotatively fixed relation thereto so as to be rotatable together with the toilet covering about the hinge axis. One end of the hinge shaft is received by a support member provided on the side of the toilet for allowing the hinge shaft to rotate together with the toilet covering relative to the toilet. A retainer spring is secured to the hinge element adjacent to the bore for latching the hinge shaft against an axial movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Amaki, Tsutomu Okumoto
  • Patent number: 5141072
    Abstract: The distribution of drive power produced by a drive power source is controlled in a four-wheel-drive motor vehicle having main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels. Drive powers produced by the drive power source are independently regulated and transmitted to the left and right auxiliary drive wheels. While the drive power distribution ratio between the main and auxiliary drive wheels is maintained at a suitable value, the drive powers are variable distributed between the left and right auxiliary drive wheels by a drive power distribution control system. The drive power distribution control system determines the drive power distribution ratio between the left and right auxiliary drive wheels depending on a detected lateral acceleration exerted to the motor vehicle, and transmits the drive powers to the left and right auxiliary drive wheels according to the determined drive power distribution ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuji Shibahata
  • Patent number: 5142647
    Abstract: An improved magnus measuring apparatus for providing an automatic initial setting at high speed in testing a plurality of biological specimens which moves elastically with beats, wherein a tensile force is applied on a specimen by moving the transducer connected thereto with use of a motor to be driven and stopped under the control of a control unit, and thereby the rotating speed of the motor is increased gradually at least for a predetermined period of time from the start and then kept at high speed for bringing a bottom value of the tensile force to enter an extent of preliminarily set initial value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventors: Osamu Nakagawa, Nobuo Hosoya, Noriaki Kuno, Takao Hirose
  • Patent number: 5142179
    Abstract: The stator of a built-in motor must be firmly and accurately mounted on the spindle head housing or the like of a machine tool. A stator core (10), i.e., a principal component of the stator is welded partially at the circumference (14) thereof, and then the circumference of the stator core (10) held by a mandrel is finished to an accurate outside diameter by grinding. The stator core (10) thus constructed is subjected to a deformation with a lapse of time after the mandrel has been removed. To solve this problem, each lamination (12) of the stator core (10) is coated with a thermosetting adhesive, to be thereby joined together, and each lamination (12) is provided with a plurality of pressed projections (22) to be joined together by weld portions (20) on the circumference of the stator core (10), or each lamination (12) is joined together by pressing a serrated bar (26) into a bore (24) thereof, without a pressed projection (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosei Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Kazuhisa Numai, Masami Kimijima
  • Patent number: 5142012
    Abstract: A curable resin having a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 100,000 and having the formula (I): ##STR1## and a process for preparing the curable resin (I). The curable resin (I) of the invention is excellent in flexibility, solvent resistance, adhesion to organic materials as well as inorganic materials, storage stability, curability at ordinary temperature and weatherability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Kanegafuchi Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisao Furukawa, Hideyuki Ohnari, Yasushi Kato
  • Patent number: 5142302
    Abstract: A sublimation type thermal transfer color video printer generates a heating pulse having a duration corresponding to the tone level of the pixel to be printed, according to the data in a reference tone table stored in a memory, to energize the corresponding heating element of a thermal heat during the duration. The tone table includes a variable data which is the basis of determining the duration of the first energizing pulse required up to right before the coloring of a recording paper, and a fixed data which are the bases of determining the durations of subsequent energizing pulses. A variable value multiplied by these fixed data is set in a separate register. The variable data in the tone table and the variable value in the register are rewritten according to change in temperature of the thermal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kano
  • Patent number: 5141820
    Abstract: An aluminum pipe according to the present invention is used in forming a plurality of bulged portions on the peripheral wall thereof. At the same time by bulging has been so refined as to exhibit an elongation of at least 40% and a recrystallization texture of up to 60 .mu.m in grain size during bulging. The aluminum pipe to be bulged is produced by a process characterized by drawing an extruded aluminum pipe at a cold working ratio of at least 40%, and thereafter annealing the drawn pipe at a temperature of 350.degree. to 420.degree. C., whereby the pipe is refined to exhibit the specified elongation and recrystallization texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Showa Aluminum Corporation
    Inventors: Minobu Sukimoto, Hitoshi Akiyoshi, Seijiro Taguchi, Kazuo Sugiyama, Isao Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5142009
    Abstract: A hard contact lens material comprising a copolymer made of at least two kinds of fumaric acid diester at least one of which is a dialkyl fumarate as main components. The hard contact lens material has high oxygen permeability, transparance and excellent physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Tomei Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toru Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 5141398
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drag elastic-return and damping device (28) for a blade, and a rotor head including it.The device (28) comprises a connecting rod (30) connected to the blade and transmitting its drag movements to a rotary member (29) for elastic return with incorporated damping whose outer armature (32) it causes to rotate about a coaxial inner armature (31) in order to shear at least one thin collar (33) of a viscoelastic elastomer about its axis (B). The connecting rod (30) is coupled by way of rotational joints (43, 44) to a sleeve (15) for attaching the blade to the hub (1), and to a lever (34) of the outer armature (32). The member (29) is supported at the periphery of the hub (1), between two adjacent blades, or in the sleeve for attaching an adjacent blade such that the corresponding connecting rod is mounted as an inter-blade tie. On the rotor head, each blade is articulated with the hub (1) by a spherical laminated thrust block (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle et Aerospatiale
    Inventors: Claude Bietenhader, Robert J. Suzzi
  • Patent number: 5140941
    Abstract: A water vessel is assembled from a number of vessel units having at least one connecting opening, a short tube portion formed at each connecting opening of the vessel units, a connecting flange formed at an end of each short tube portion, and an annular packing interposed between contact surfaces of the connecting flanges of an adjacent pair of vessel units and received by annular recesses of the contact surfaces. A number of connecting members are arranged around each pair of connecting flanges of adjacent vessel units with the pair of flanges being inserted into grooves formed in the connecting members. The pair of flanges are pressed into contact by bolts for clamping the end portions of the connecting members together and utilizing wedge action between peripheral wedge portions of the pairs of flanges and groove wedge portions of the connecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Daiichi Kogei Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nariaki Takakuwa
  • Patent number: 5140123
    Abstract: A continuous manufacturing method for a metal welded tube and a manufacturing apparatus therefor, which obtains a tubular member by continuously passing a metal band coil through molding rollers, guides the tubular member to abutting rollers to bring the edges thereof in slight contact with each other so as to form a V-throat having the vertex of an edge contact portion at the upstream side of the abutting rollers, disposes an inductor of a high frequency preheating unit aiming at edge preheating at the outer periphery in front of the abutting point of the V-throat and at need disposes an impeder also at the inner surface of the V-throat, and further disposes welding torches in a single or double rows of a welding unit for melting and welding the tubular member by welding high density energy at the upstream side of the abutting rollers including the line connecting the centers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Kusakabe Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Mitani
  • Patent number: 5139567
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for recovering valuable metals from a dust containing zinc comprising mixing the dust containing zinc with a reductant and a flux for regulating the basicity of slag, forming the mixture into pellets with a pelletizer, charging the pellets into a shaft type preheating-prereducing furnace provided with a preheating zone at the upper part and with a reducing zone at the lower part and removing, in the preheating zone, moisture and ignition loss components in the pellets, while prereducing in the reducing zone, the pellets under such conditions that a reduction of iron oxide is made to proceed selectively while the reduction of zinc oxide is suppressed to the possible minimum, charging the prereduced pellets into a melting furnace to melt and reduce them in the furnace, separating zinc, or zinc and lead, by evaporation followed by condensation to recover them, and separating iron and lead, or iron, according to the difference in their specific gravities to recover the iron as a molte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Matsuoka, Yukio Koyabu, Shinichi Kurozu
  • Patent number: 5140281
    Abstract: An offset voltage at one pair of differential amplifier transistors for effecting the differential amplification of an input signal is suppressed. To achieve this aim, the base current of a pair of differential amplifier transistors is supplied from a current generator circuit separately provided. This current generator circuit has a very small current flow, and is composed of another pair of differential amplifier transistors to which a reference voltage identical with the bias voltage of the first differential amplifier transistors is applied, a transistor for reference current use for delivering a current at a current density identical with the current density of the first differential amplifier transistors, a base current supply transistor for supplying power to the reference current transistor, and two current supply transistors for delivering a current identical with the current of the simulation base-current supply transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Fujisawa, Hiroshi Kojima
  • Patent number: 5139319
    Abstract: A plurality of facing members are removably attached to respective surface segments formed on the outer surface of a cabinet and identical in shape, interchangeably with respect to the position of attachment. Each of the surface segments extends over a plurality of cabinet faces forming corners of the cabinet. Each of the facing members comprises a plurality of panel portions in conformity with the shape of the surface segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyai, Mutsuo Yamaguchi, Kazutoshi Zushi, Tetsushiro Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 5139737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a steel for plastics molds superior in weldability. The steel consists essentially of C: 0.1 to 0.3%, Mn: 0.5 to 3.5%, Cr: 1.0 to 3.0%, Mo:0.03 to 2.0%, V:0.1 to 1.0% and S: 0.01 to 0.10%; Si: not more than 0.25%, P: not more than 0.2%, and B: not more than 0.002%; the balance being substantially Fe. The alloy composition should satisfy the following formula:BH=326.0+847.3 (C%)+18.3 (Si%) -8.6 (Mn%)-12.5 (Cr%).ltoreq.460The steel can be welded in the process of manufacturing a plastics mold without reqiring preheating and postheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Dadio Tokushuko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Sudo, Masaru Nagata
  • Patent number: 5140555
    Abstract: In a semiconductor integrated device having floating voltage portion pairs, a signal line crossing over or under the floating voltage portion pairs, and a non-floating voltage portion, a noise source equivalent to the signal line is provided between the floating voltage pairs and the non-floating voltage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadao Nishiguchi, Takeo Tatematsu, Yoshinori Kasuta
  • Patent number: 5138770
    Abstract: An eyeglasses frame tracing device used in an eyeglasses lens grinding machine. The eyeglasses frame tracing device of the invention comprises a horizontally movable base portion, a rotary base rotatably supported on the base portion, a shaft including a measuring element at its upper end, the shaft being retained on the rotary base so as to relatively move in the vertical and lateral direction with respect to the rotary base, a light-shielding plate which moves in association with the vertical movement and lateral movement of the measuring element shaft and which has openings to allow a part of light to pass therethrough, and a pair of a light emitting section and a light receiving section which are provided opposite to each other with the light-shielding plate interposed therebetween and which moves integrally with the rotary base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1992
    Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Matsuyama