Patents Represented by Law Firm Cushman, Darby and Cushman
  • Patent number: 5901530
    Abstract: At a certain stage in the fabrication of a rigid cigarette packet, which appears essentially as a rectangular cup or body with a coaxial lid, the partly formed packet is transferred from a first feed path onto a second feed path, still having longitudinal flaps that project on either side from a front face of the body and a front face of the lid; the transfer is effected by means of a device that includes in a rotatable platform with at least one gripper head designed to engage at least the two front faces of the single packet in such a way that the body and lid remain stably interconnected, and during the course of the transfer movement to rotate the packet through 90.degree. about an axis which is normal to the front faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fiorenzo Draghetti, Fulvio Boldrini
  • Patent number: 5824462
    Abstract: Disclosed are resin-coated paper having on one side of its base paper a first resin layer made of a resin composition obtained by melt-blending 90 to 65 parts by weight of a high-density polyethylene resin having a melt flow rate of 10.0 g/10 min to 40.0 g/10 min and a density of 0.960 g/cm.sup.3 or more and 10 to 35 parts by weight of a low-density polyethylene resin or a medium-density polyethylene resin, which has a melt flow rate of 0.2 g/10 min to 2 g/10 min, a density of 0.935 g/cm.sup.3 or less, a percentage of molecules with a molecular weight of 500,000 or more of 10% by weight or more and a critical shear rate of 0.5 (l/sec) or less, said resin composition obtained by the melt-blending having a critical shear rate of 10 (l/sec) or less; and a process for producing the resin-coated paper. The resin-coated paper is good in the molding processability of the resin layer, is excellent in the adhesion between the resin layer and the base paper, and contains only a small amount of a gel formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ashida, Touru Noda, Osamu Kojima, Tomoichi Morita, Nobushige Ikeya, Takuya Seri, Kohhei Nitta
  • Patent number: 5789821
    Abstract: A starter which reduces the number of parts for a pinion rotation regulation and provides an accurate magnet switch operation. A concave portion is formed on the bottom side of a plunger to store a spherical body set on the rear end of a cord-shaped member, e.g., wire. A male screw and a fixing are used so that the length of the cord-shaped member is adjusted thereby. The length of the string-shaped member is adjusted so that the claw of the pinion rotation regulating member fits into the notch on the outer circumference of a pinion gear. Furthermore, the claw is fit into the notch via the wire when the plunger moves. The cord-shaped member may be replaced by a rod member disposed radially inside or outside the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shiga, Nobuyuki Hayashi, Masanori Ohmi, Masami Niimi, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi, Masao Saito, Yoshio Murakami, Takeshi Araki
  • Patent number: 5775728
    Abstract: A pad for a steering wheel includes a membrane switch forming member and a cover member. The switch forming member includes a switch body and a support plate. The switch body has a plurality of conductive thin metal sheets and an insulating space interposed between the metal sheets. The support plate is made of rigid synthetic resin for supporting the switch body on its upper face and is formed in its outer peripheral edge with a plurality of mounting holes extending vertically. The cover member covers the air bag of an air bag device and is formed with a rupture portion adapted to be ruptured when the air bag is inflated, and mounting ribs projecting from the back face thereof and engaged with the mounting holes of the support plate. At least one of the outer peripheral edge of the support plate and the back face of the cover member is formed with gap regulating projections for setting a predetermined gap between the upper face of the support plate back face of the cover member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Niwa, Kimio Muramatsu, Makoto Kanai, Michio Inoue, Junichi Mizutani, Takanori Kantoh, Tadashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5759948
    Abstract: The invention provides a titanium oxide photocatalyst having an excellent photocatalytic property and comprising titanium oxide particles which have part or the whole of an iron compound contained therein and supported thereon. The invention further provides a titanium oxide photocatalyst comprising titanium oxide particles which are treated with a mineral acid and which have part or the whole of an iron compound contained therein and supported thereon. The invention still further provides a process for producing the titanium oxide photocatalyst. Utilizing the excellent photocatalytic property, materials which exert or may exert a harmful influence upon human bodies or living environment, such as organic halogen compounds, malodorous gases, oils, bacteria, fungi and algae can be rapidly and effectively removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Takaoka, Yoshio Hirobe, Masanori Tomonari, Yoshiki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5756251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a lithographic printing plate from a photographic element according to the silver complex diffusion transfer process employing a coating development process with a small amount of developer, wherein the coating amount of the developer is 60 ml or less per 1 m.sup.2 of the photographic element and the developer contains a mercaptooxadiazole having an alkyl group of 4 or more carbon atoms or aryl group and an alkanolamine and/or a meso-ionic compound. The resulting lithographic printing plate has a high printing endurance and free from stains on the background in spite of carrying out the development by a coating method with a small amount of the developer for a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Toshiro Kondo, Akio Yoshida, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Jun Urasaki, Motozo Yamano, Makiko Oko, Hideaki Baba
  • Patent number: 5579637
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an engine for reliably converging an air-fuel ratio around a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to prevent harmful exhaust components from being discharged into the air is described. The apparatus includes a CPU which determines an inversion direction of an output of an O.sub.2 sensor on the downstream side of a catalytic converter, corrects a target air-fuel ratio .lambda.TG in a step-like fashion in the opposite direction by a skip amount and calculates a fuel injection amount every injection timing on the basis of a difference between the corrected target air-fuel ratio .lambda.TG and an air-fuel ratio .lambda. detected by an O.sub.2 sensor on the upstream side of the exhaust flow. The target air-fuel ratio is reflected immediately in the fuel injection amount at an updating rate of every ilnjection timing, so that the fuel injection amount may be controlled with an excellent responsiveness to turbulence in the air-fuel ratio. Further, upper and lower limit guard values .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Yamashita, Jun Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5545807
    Abstract: Chimaeric or wholly foreign immunoglobulin is obtained from cells or body fluid of a transgenic animal which has had inserted into its germline genetic material that encodes for at least part of an immunoglobulin, of foreign origin or that can rearrange to encode a repertoire of immunoglobulins, i.e. derived from a different animal source. For example, wholly human immunoglobulins may be produced from a transgenic mouse, possibly in response to an immunogen subsequently introduced to the mouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignees: The Babraham Institute, Medical Research Council
    Inventors: Azim M. Surani, Michael S. Neuberger, Marianne Bruggemann
  • Patent number: 5534297
    Abstract: A method for treating the surface of a polyolefin resin molded article is disclosed, comprising applying a running aqueous ozone solution in the form of a stream (or a waterfall) or spray onto the surface of a polyolefin resin molded article to oxidize the surface of the molded article for modifying the surface. Surface modification can be carried out on the same line in a series of processing, and extremely satisfactory results can be obtained by a short-time treatment with reduced energy. A coating layer formed on the modified surface exhibits high adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Ogisu, Mamoru Kato, Shigeyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5462022
    Abstract: A transmitting device is operative for transmitting a rotational force from a crankshaft to a camshaft. A rotational phase adjusting device is operative for adjusting a relative rotational phase between the crankshaft and the camshaft. A crank angle sensor is operative for detecting a rotational angle of the crankshaft, and outputting a rotational angle detection signal indicative thereof. At least one signal inducing member is provided on the camshaft. A cam angle sensor cooperating with the signal inducing member is operative for outputting a cam signal each time the camshaft reaches a predetermined rotational angle. A phase controlling device is operative for monitoring a phase difference between the cam signal and the rotational angle detection signal determined while an arbitrarily-chosen angle of the crankshaft is used as a reference, and for determining an amount of the adjustment by the rotational phase adjusting device so that the monitored phase difference will be equal to a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayasu Ushida
  • Patent number: 5327834
    Abstract: An integrated field-effect initiator useful for the pyrotechnic initiation or detonation of explosives includes a semiconductor channel of a first conductivity type bounded on opposite ends by semiconductor material of an opposite conductivity type to define two PN junctions in the conduction path. The semiconductor channel is doped to define a conduction path of sufficiently high impedance to prevent unintended initiation. A gate electrode is positioned adjacent the channel and separated therefrom by an insulation layer to affect the conductivity of the channel as a function of a potential applied to the gate. In normal operation, an initiation electrical potential is applied to the opposite ends of the conduction path and a gate potential is applied to the gate to effect field-enhanced conduction in the path sufficient to allow vaporization of the path to cause initiation of an explosive material in contact with the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Thiokol Corporation
    Inventor: Peter L. C. Atkeson
  • Patent number: 5325112
    Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus of the continuous jet type and an automatic ink jet jetting axis adjusting method of the same wherein the position of an ink jet jetting axis or nozzle axis can automatically be adjusted to an optimum position by a deflecting electric field are disclosed. When a carriage is at its home position, jetting of ink from a nozzle is started, and an MPU changes over a change-over switch to a test signal generator side. The test signal generator generates a test signal, which is a sum of an amplified recording signal and a bias potential outputted from a bias power source, and applies the test signal to a controlling electrode. The MPU checks an output of a current detector (jet current) based on charged ink drops caught by a conductive drop catcher to discriminate the positional relationship between an ink jet jetting axis and a knife edge. The MPU then changes the bias potential of the bias power source in accordance with a result of the discrimination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: SR Technos Ltd.,
    Inventor: Masayuki Muto
  • Patent number: 5324128
    Abstract: The applicator assembly (1) is characterised in that the bottle (3) comprises a case supplied by capillary slots (11, 12). In order to obtain good impregnation, the case (10) has an internal shape (25) similar to that of the applicator end piece (6). The stem (7) comprises a shoulder (8) which bears against a sealing seat (9). A locking device (17, 15) is provided in the next and in the stem in order to keep the shoulder (8) in bearing contact against the seat (9). The applicator and the bottle are provided with a system having corresponding undulations (16) so that opening is effected gradually by rotating the cap (5) slightly about its axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Jean-Louis H. Gueret
  • Patent number: 5276016
    Abstract: Short peptide of the formula:R.sup.a -Ser-Thr-Thr-Thr-Asn-Tyr-R.sup.b (I)where R.sup.a represents an amino terminal residue Ala- or D-Ala and R.sup.b represents a carboxy terminal residue -Thr or -Thr amide or a derivative thereof with an additional Cys- residue at one or both of the amino and carboxy terminals, or a peptide of formula (II):R.sup.1 -R.sup.2 -R.sup.3 -R.sup.4 -R.sup.5 (II)whereR.sup.1 is an amino terminal residue Thr-, Ser-, Asn-,Leu-,Ile-,Arg- or Glu-R.sup.2 is Thr, Ser or AspR.sup.3 is Thr, Ser, Asn, Arg, Gln, Lys or TrpR.sup.4 is Tyr andR.sup.5 is a carboxy terminal amino group or a derivative thereof with a corresponding D- amino acid as the amino terminal residue, and/or a corresponding amide derivative at the carboxy terminal residue and/or additionally a Cys- residue at one or both of the amino and carboxy terminals,or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.Such peptides bind to T4 receptors are useful in preventing viral infectivity by viruses which bind to the T4 receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Candace B. Pert, Michael R. Ruff, William L. Farrar
  • Patent number: 5261571
    Abstract: The dosing dispenser, designed particularly for liquid and viscous products, includes a flask (1) containing the product to be dispensed, to the neck (4) of which is fixed a dispenser head (8), the said flask (1) being housed inside a sheath (2) topped with a cover (3) holding the flask in the sheath, through which the dispensing head (8) passes which allows for dispensing of the product. It is possible to compress the neck (4) of the flask (1), and the cover (3) possesses means (21,22) which allow for the neck (4) to be compressed causing the product to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventor: Antonin Goncalves
  • Patent number: 5223230
    Abstract: A component for deodorizing air or gas having a coexist compound as a deodorizing element, said coexist compound comprising a metal and a reaction product of the metal and an acid, wherein the metal is selected from at least one of Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, Zn, Al and Cu, and the acid is selected from at least one of ascorbic acid, gluconic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, tannic acid, gallic acid, EDTA and malic acid, wherein clean air or gas is passed through the deodorizing element to restore its deodorizing effect after a period of time sufficient for the deodorizing element to lose its deodorizing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Takemura, Tamio Noda, Yoshitsugu Sakagami, Tadashi Morita
  • Patent number: 5215671
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for recovering 2-chloropropionic acid so that this compound can be separated in a high-purity form. According to the method, crude 2-chloropropionic acid is heat-treated in the presence of a metal compound at a temperature in the range of 130.degree.-180.degree. C. where dichloro derivatives are contained as impurities or at a temperature not exceeding 160.degree. C. where no dichloro derivatives are contained. The metal compound is then removed at 160.degree. C. or lower. Final purification is thereafter conducted to obtain 2-chloropropionic acid as a high-purity product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated
    Inventors: Yuzo Ono, Thutomu Kajikuri, Shoji Kitado, Kenji Senoo
  • Patent number: 5189334
    Abstract: A shadow mask for use in a color cathode ray tube includes an electron beam transmissive domed plane disposed substantially perpendicular to an electron beam path. The domed plane comprises a central apertured area which has a predetermined pattern of electron beam transmissive apertures chemically etched thereon. An unapertured border is formed along the periphery of the central apertured border and a skirt portion is formed along the periphery of the unapertured border. The skirt portion and the unapertured order include a plurality of stripe type grooves which are formed on top and bottom surfaces of both the unapertured border and the skirt portion and which are alternately configured and formed by a chemical etching process. The chemically etched plurality of stripe type grooves are provided to eliminate the problem of spring-back when the domed plane is press-formed into a domed shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Samsung Electronic Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hae-kyun Park
  • Patent number: 5189022
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating chronic fatigue syndrome not associated with an HIV infection. In the method of the present invention patients are administered a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier together with(1) a neuropsychiatrically effective amount of a linear peptide of formula (I):R.sup.a -Ser-Thr-Thr-Thr-Asn-Tyr-R.sup.6 (I)whereinR.sup.a is Ala, D-Ala or Cys-Ala-, andR.sup.6 is Thr, Thr-amide, Thr-Cys or Thr-Cys-amide,or a derivative of the peptide or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof; or(2) a neuropsychiatrically effective amount of a linear peptide of formula (II):R.sup.1 -R.sup.2 -R.sup.3 -R.sup.4 -R.sup.5 (II)whereinR.sup.1 is X-Y or Y when Y is Thr-, Ser-, Asn-, Leu-, Ile-, Arg- or Glu-, and X is Cys;R.sup.2 is Thr-, Ser- or Asp;R.sup.3 is Thr, Ser, Asn, Arg, Gln, Lys or Trp;R.sup.4 is Tyr; andR.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Thomas P. Bridge, Frederick K. Goodwin
  • Patent number: 5169903
    Abstract: Disclosed is a methacrylic resin cast plate which is comprised of 100 parts by weight of [I] polymethyl methacrylate or a methyl methacrylate copolymer containing at least 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate units and, dispersed therein, a graft copolymer [IV] obtained by graft-polymerizing a hard resin component [III] containing at least 90% by weight of methyl methacrylate units onto a crosslinked rubbery copolymer [II] containing at least 45% by weight of butyl acrylate units and having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1 .mu.m, the amount of the graft copolymer [IV] being 2 to 30 parts by weight as the amount of the crosslinked rubbery copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Toritani, Suehiro Tayama, Yasunori Kawachi