Patents Represented by Law Firm Cushman Darby & Cushman Intellectual Property Group Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
  • Patent number: 5831661
    Abstract: A transparent adhesive layer 3 with good permeability to laser light is provided on a base sheet 4, a colored layer 2 with good absorption of laser light is provided on the transparent adhesive layer 3, and a transparent layer 1 with good permeability to laser light is provided on the colored layer 2. Laser light 6 is irradiated from the side of the transparent layer 1 to form marked sections 5 at prescribed areas of the colored layer 2. To paste the marking sheet A onto the outer surface of a product, the base sheet 4 is peeled off and the transparent adhesive layer 3 is pasted onto the outer surface of the product. The color of the outer surface of the product may then be seen through the marked sections 5. Thus, satisfactory displays may be provided using only the marked sections 5 formed by laser light irradiation, without any additional special painting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Tabuchi, Junichi Ohguchi, Fumio Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 5832176
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heating type ultrasonic humidifier that destroys germs existing in water, and has enhanced efficiency because of heating the water by a heater. The humidifier has a housing having a removable water supply vessel wherein a valve is mounted on a lower end of the water supply vessel installed at a first portion of the housing, and a duct formed at a first side wall of the housing. The housing has a subsidiary water vessel having a water flow pipe, a heater water vessel which has a heater and a discharging pipe, a pressure control device, a pressure valve device, a main water vessel which has an ultrasonic vibrator, a mist conduit pipe, a nozzle, and a motor-blower. Accordingly, the humidifier destroys the germs existing in the water in the heater water vessel because the water is heated by the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woong Jung
  • Patent number: 5829266
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic ice maker for effectively separating ice through transmitting the compressive force and the rotational force to the ice tray during the rotation of ice tray. A first rotating shaft is provided at a first end of the ice tray and a second rotating shaft is provided at a second end which is opposite to the first end. A power transmitting member transmits the rotational force to the ice tray through the first rotating shaft and the compressive force along the direction of the first rotating shaft to separate the ice. A supporting member limits the rotation of the ice tray and supports the second rotating shaft. The ice tray is turned over using the rotational force of a step motor. The power transmitting member generates the compressive force to the turned-over ice tray and the compressive force is transmitted to the ice tray to twist the ice tray. Through the twist, the ice is separated from the ice tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Gang Lyu
  • Patent number: 5826281
    Abstract: A protective chin strap for headwear such as an athletic helmet is provided with a chin portion including an inflatable pouch and a manually operated valve pump so that the wearer can inflate the pouch to adjust the tension of the strap to adjust the force holding the helmet on the head of the wearer as well as at the same time provide a shock absorbing cushion on the chin of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Inventor: Gus A. Rush, III
  • Patent number: 5827423
    Abstract: A filtering device for use in a washing machine is disclosed. The filtering device has a filtering web disposed so that a planar direction thereof is equal with a flowing direction of the washing water in the pipe in which washing water circulates, and many ribs disposed on the filtering web to form a lattice. Longitudinal directions of the ribs have a predetermined angle against the flowing direction of the washing water. The washing water flowing in the pipe during a draining operation is guided toward the edge areas of the filtering web, so it is distributed to be in uniform contact with the filtering web. The dirt having been adhered to the filtering web during the washing operation is efficiently removed by the washing water guided by the ribs during the draining operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Am-Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 5826299
    Abstract: A brush assembly for a vacuum cleaner which can be simply manufactured by a molding working. The brush assembly has a body formed at an upper surface thereof with a recess, an air duct integrally formed with the body, and ribs for clamping the auxiliary brushes stored in the recess. The body is formed at an underside thereof with an air inlet. The air duct is communicated with the air inlet. Elements of the brush assembly are integrally manufactured by the molding working so that the cost of manufacturing the brush assembly is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Suk-Koo Kim
  • Patent number: 5827653
    Abstract: A method for the detection of a nucleic acid analyte by complementary probe hybridisation and formation of a chelated lanthanide complex which, upon irradiation by light, results in a characteristic delayed luminescence emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Peter George Sammes, Andrew John Garman
  • Patent number: 5827401
    Abstract: A screen system for a digester for continuous cooking under raised pressure and temperature of fiber material in a vertical vessel, where input of fiber material and cooking liquid takes place at the top of the digester, withdrawal of spent cooking liquor is carried out from at least one digester screening arrangement (1D) between the top and the bottom of the digester, and fiber material is fed out from the bottom (1C) of the digester, wherein at least one of said screening arrangements (1, 2) has at least one screen element (2A) of which the main configuration is circular and which is assembled by means of welding, and which is fitted into the digester shell by means of welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping Technologies AB
    Inventors: Ake Backlund, Kenneth Bellstrom, Finn Oulie, Johanna Svanberg, Soren Soderqvist
  • Patent number: 5826442
    Abstract: A defroster for refrigerators, capable of defrosting both a prefrosting panel and an evaporator using a defrosting heater, is disclosed. In an embodiment, a heat conduction panel integrally extends from the defrosting heater and terminates at a position approximate to one end of the prefrosting panel, thus allowing heat of the defrosting heater to be transferred to the prefrosting panel through thermal conduction. The heat conduction panel has an enough width to be connected to the total length of the defrosting heater and is uniformly spaced apart from the end of the prefrosting panel. In another embodiment, the prefrosting panel extends to an enough length to be directly connected to the defrosting heater, thus being selectively defrosted with heat transferred from the defrosting heater through thermal conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 5826301
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multipurpose auxiliary brush for complementing a cleaning function of a main brush and for enabling a vacuum cleaner to perform various cleaning jobs, regardless of an object and place to be cleaned. A knife-type brush of the multipurpose auxiliary brush is adapted to clean a recessed surface such as a doorframe, a windowframe, or a recessed place in a room. The multipurpose auxiliary brush is connected to a hose assembly of the vacuum cleaner by inserting the hose assembly through an end of the knife-type brush. A carpet cleaning brush of the multipurpose auxiliary brush is adapted to beat and clean a variety of indented cleaning surfaces such as a sofa, a carpet, or a foot board made of woven goods. The carpet cleaning brush is slideably positioned on the front portion of the knife-type brush. The carpet cleaning brush can protrude in the forward direction from the front portion of the knife-type brush and can be arranged in a fan shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Bo Kang, Young-Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 5823152
    Abstract: A shoe housing 3 is connected to and rotatable together with an input shaft. A vane rotor 9 is connected to an output shaft and accommodated in shoe housing 3 so as to cause a rotation within a predetermined angle with respect to shoe housing 3. Vane rotor 9 and shoe housing 3 cooperatively define hydraulic chambers 10, 11, 12 and 13 whose volumes are variable in accordance with a rotational position of vane rotor 9 with respect to shoe housing 3. A locking member 7 is accommodated in vane rotor 9 and shiftable in a direction parallel to a rotational axis common to shoe housing 3 and vane rotor 9. And, an engaging bore 20, formed on a front plate 4 secured to shoe housing 3, receives locking member 7 through a tapered surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayasu Ushida
  • Patent number: 5824010
    Abstract: A suture needle guide and a method of use therefor. A suture needle guide comprises a needle guide member connected to a manually-graspable handle. The needle guide member is inserted, via an arteriotomy, into the lumen of a host blood vessel. The needle guide member includes a portion which is shaped to guide a suture needle so that anastomosis can be more accurately and easily performed, compared to free-handed suturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Inventor: Garth R. McDonald
  • Patent number: 5825000
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wave guide system of a microwave oven which has a partition wall for separating a cavity in which food to be cooked is placed from a control room in which a magnetron for generating microwaves is provided, the partition wall having a first and second microwave feed openings for feeding the microwaves to the food; and a wave guide provided to the partition wall where the first and second microwave feed openings are formed, the wave guide having a horizontal upper wall, a side wall to which the magnetron is attached, and a lower wall having a first inclined portion connected to the side wall, a second inclined portion connected to the partition wall, and a vertical portion provided between the first and the second inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woo-Keum Jun
  • Patent number: 5821684
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a substantially rectangular shadow mask in which a plurality of slit type aperture arrays are aligned in the direction of the major axis of an effective region defined by a curved surface opposing a phosphor screen formed on the inner surface, defined by a concave curved surface, of the effective region of a panel. Each slit type aperture array is obtained by arranging a plurality of slit type apertures in an array in the direction of the minor axis of the effective region of the shadow mask. In this color cathode ray tube, the difference between the array interval of the slit type aperture arrays at a peripheral portion on the long side of the shadow mask and the array interval of the slit type aperture arrays on the major axis is a maximum value within a distance range of 0.4 h to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Murai, Masatsugu Inoue, Nobuhiko Akoh, Kumio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 5821246
    Abstract: The invention concerns aniline derivatives of formula I ##STR1## wherein m is 1, 2 or 3, n is 0, 1, 2 or 3, Q is phenyl or naphthyl or a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl moiety containing 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur, and X, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are defined in the claims; or pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and the methods of using the compounds as tyrosine kinase inhibitors and for the treatment of proliferative diseases such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Zeneca Limited
    Inventors: Dearg Sutherland Brown, Jeffrey James Morris, Andrew Peter Thomas
  • Patent number: 5821000
    Abstract: A composite magnetic member formed of a single material having a ferromagnetic section with high soft magnetism and a non-magnetic or the like section with sufficiently low magnetic (feebly magnetized or non-magnetic) and sufficient low MS temperature and a process for producing the member are provided. A composite magnetic member made of a single material of martensitic stainless steel including Ni having two sections of a ferromagnetic section having maximum permeability not less than 200 and coercive force not more than 2000 A/m and a feebly magnetized section having permeability not more than 2 and MS temperature not more than -30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Inui, Jun Sunakawa, Masaki Shimizu, Keizo Takeuchi, Shinya Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5819552
    Abstract: An air-circulated refrigerator in which a conventional separate partition, in which air passages are formed is unnecessary, so that it can be assembled easily and promptly and the freezer and refrigerating compartments are space efficient. An evaporator and fans are installed to an air duct assembly. The air duct assembly has a main air duct, an air duct cover, an air duct insulation member and air guide ducts. In the main duct, air passages are formed. One end of each of the air guide ducts is inserted into and communicated with each of the corresponding air passages, and the other end of each of the air guide ducts is inserted into each of the openings of the refrigerating compartment so as to be communicated with the refrigerating compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Kweon Lee
  • Patent number: 5816520
    Abstract: The reel brake apparatus for a VCR has a releasing shaft and a mode plate for driving the releasing shaft. The releasing shaft is movably mounted on a main base, and the mode plate has a recess part which is recessed from a plane part thereof. The mode plate is movably disposed along a planar direction thereof. When a cassette is loaded in the VCR, the releasing shaft is inserted into the cassette. A locking device in the cassette is driven by the inserted releasing shaft, so reel hubs in the cassette are released. If the operating mode of the VCR is converted to a stop mode or an eject mode during the running of the tape, the mode plate is moved so that the releasing shaft may be accommodated in the recess part. Accordingly, the releasing shaft is detached from the cassette to lock the reel hubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyo-Jong Yoo
  • Patent number: 5816898
    Abstract: A cutter sharpening accessory or cutter holder for use in conjunction with a drill press, radial arm saw or like woodworking apparatus to which a grinding tool, such as a diamond cup wheel, can be secured and rotated at high speed and having a work surface disposed thereunder on which the holder of the invention can be displaced relative to the grinding tool. The cutter sharpening accessory provided in accordance with the invention is adapted to rough and micro adjustment both radially and radial transversely to properly position a cutter to be sharpened relative to the horizontally disposed grinding face of the grinding tool. Continuous adjustment vertically is advantageous provided, furthermore, to ensure that the surface to be ground is properly located vertically relative to the grinding tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Woodworker's Supply
    Inventors: John Wirth, Jr., Jay L. Sanger, Mark K. McCool
  • Patent number: D400053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Igloo Products Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen L. Coffee, James J. J. Costello, Winthrop A. Eastman, Laurence R. Giles, Jonathan H. Godshall, Eve Heim-Grubb, Ninh G. Pham