Patents Represented by Law Firm Hazel & Thomas, P.C.
-
Patent number: 6071002Abstract: A system for analyzing offensive and defensive patterns of teams in team sports incorporates a device for inputting data on offensive/defensive patterns to be analyzed including data on individual player actions; a device for displaying the offensive/defensive pattern data including at least a graphical representation of a playing field with the data on the individual player actions represented thereon; a device for recording and playing back video images of an actual game for analysis; and a device for synchronizing at least the playing back of the video images from the recording and playing back device with the displaying of the offensive/defensive pattern data, whereby video images of the game are extracted and displayed in coordination with outputting and displaying of offensive/defensive pattern data selected for viewing.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1997Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Inventor: Muneomi Katayama
-
Patent number: 6047986Abstract: An air bag inflator apparatus incorporating a lower canister and an upper canister forming a canister housing. The canister housing has a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, a fourth wall and a fifth wall. The first, second, third and fourth walls define a first space which accommodates an air bag, and the first, second, third, fourth and fifth walls define a second space which accommodates an inflator. A first flow control wall is continuously formed on the surface of the first wall, and a second flow control wall is continuously formed on the surface of the second wall. The first and second flow control walls control a flow of a gas from the inflator.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanobu Ishikawa, Kazunori Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Ito
-
Patent number: 6035816Abstract: A valve timing control device for controlling the opening/closing timing of the intake valve or exhaust valve of an internal combustion engine is disclosed, comprising a valve opening/closing rotary shaft rotatably assembled with the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine; a rotation transmitting member mounted around the rotary shaft so as to rotate relative thereto within a predetermined range for transmitting a rotating power from a crank shaft; vanes provided on the rotary shaft or the rotation transmitting member; a fluid chamber formed between the rotary shaft and the rotation transmitting member and halved into advancing chambers and delaying chambers by the vanes; first fluid passages for feeding and discharging a fluid to and from the advancing chambers; second fluid passages for feeding and discharging the fluid to and from the delaying chambers; a refuge hole formed in the rotation transmitting member or the rotary shaft and accommodating therein a lock pin spring-biased toward the rotaryType: GrantFiled: June 5, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazumi Ogawa, Kenji Fujiwaki
-
Patent number: 6027318Abstract: A magnetically driven pump includes a pump chamber, an impeller held in the pump chamber so as to be rotatable about a central axis, a drive unit for rotatively driving the impeller, and a magnetic attraction system provided on the drive unit and impeller for rotating the impeller by mutual magnetic force. At least one of the first and second magnetic attraction devices is provided in parallel with the central axis and being provided also in front of and in back of the pump in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1996Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shizuo Shimanuki, Norio Sasaki
-
Patent number: 6021996Abstract: An electromagnetically operable proportional pressure control device has a spool which is slidably housed in a cylindrical bore formed in a housing. A pressure chamber defined in the cylindrical bore communicates with an inlet port through a diametrically reduced bore and an outlet port through a return hole, a pilot valve and a return passage. The pressure difference produced between the inlet port and the pressure chamber causes the spool to move establishing a direct fluid communication of both ports. An oil flow from the inlet port into the pressure chamber is smaller than an oil flow from the pressure chamber to the return passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1994Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideki Nakayoshi
-
Patent number: 6005427Abstract: In a digital PLL circuit, a DCO 3a comprising a full adder 33 and a delay circuit 34 accumulate a frequency control data N, to generate digital phase data ACC which periodically changes at a rate corresponding to the frequency control data N, a latch circuit 11 latches the digital phase data ACC with the aid of an input digital signal .phi..sub.in, and outputs it as a digital phase difference signal PC, and a loop filter 2 removes components in an unwanted frequency band from the digital phase difference signal PC, to form the frequency control data which is applied to the digital control oscillator means. In the digital PLL circuit, the digital phase data ACC itself, being synchronized in phase with the input digital signal .phi..sub.in, is periodically changed.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1996Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Morito Morishima
-
Patent number: 6003822Abstract: A high-hat stand comprising a rod engaging a reset spring from above, and having a movable cymbal installed on top, a pedal connecting to the bottom end of said rod, and vertically moving said rod by an urging operation, a roller link on the bottom end of said rod, and supported in the middle so as to be vertically freely moving, rotors supported in a freely rotatable manner on both ends of said roller link, and a communicating member running over these rotors, and one end of which is connected to said pedal and the other end of which is connected to pedal frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Makoto Kurosaki
-
Patent number: 6006005Abstract: An automatic telerecording apparatus is comprised of a television antenna which receives a television signal, and a key view-designating block which designates as a key view a view appearing in an identical or similar pattern every time a television program desired to be recorded is broadcast, out of moving picture information based on the television signal received by the antenna. The designated key view is stored in a key view memory, and the moving picture information based on the received television signal is monitored, to detect the key view appearing in the moving picture information. When the key view is detected, the moving picture information is stored over a preset time period.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Hiromi Okitsu
-
Patent number: 6004111Abstract: An oil pump apparatus which includes an oil pump for being driven by a driving source and for being connected to a plurality of components to which an oil is supplied from the oil pump and a control valve preventing the oil which is unnecessary to the components from flowing into the components, wherein at least one of the components is an actuator operated by an oil pressure generated by the oil pump and wherein the control valve permits the oil of which the quantity is smaller than that of the oil which is consumed by the actuator to flow into the components when the actuator is not operated and the control valve permits the oil of which the quantity is larger than that of the oil which is consumed by the actuator to flow into the components when the actuator is operated.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisashi Miyazaki, Yoshinori Miura, Ichiro Kimura, Kongo Aoki
-
Patent number: 6000092Abstract: A wiper device for a vehicle which, when abnormal load is applied, absorbs the abnormal load so that wiping operation by a wiper blade can be carried out continuously. The wiper device is compact, and dimensional management thereof is easy. One end of a first crank lever forming a portion of a crank arm is attached to an output shaft, whereas a cylindrical portion is fixed by caulking to another end of the first crank lever by a pin. An annular portion is formed at one end of a second crank lever. An elastic rubber bush is interposed between the cylindrical portion and the annular portion. The first crank lever and the second crank lever are supported by the elastic rubber bush so as to be freely rotatable.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shuichi Irikura
-
Patent number: 5997083Abstract: A vehicle seat, the seat cushion of which is divided into front and rear cushions in a fore-and-aft direction. The front cushion is rotatably mounted at its front-side lower end on a front end of a cushion frame of the vehicle seat to be tilted forward or backward. The rear cushion is placed behind the front cushion and supported by a lift mechanism mounted on a rear portion of the cushion frame. The lift mechanism is interlocked with the front cushion to raise the rear cushion to an upper position when the front cushion is tilted forward and to lower the rear cushion and place it behind the front cushion on the cushion frame in a horizontal condition when the front cushion is tilted backward and placed on the cushion frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Araco Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daisuke Ono, Yasushi Yoshikawa
-
Patent number: 5990711Abstract: A constant current driving circuit capable of performing constant current driving of a load without being influenced by power supply variation, temperature variation and process variation, while reducing the output amplitude on the high level side. The circuit includes a high-level power supply terminal, a low-level power supply terminal, a reference current source circuit, and a switching drive stage.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Yasuhiko Sekimoto
-
Patent number: 5984319Abstract: The invention relates to a holding device for balancing disk-like inertial bodies, which comprises at least two clamping elements (8) centered on a center axis (A), such elements (8) having a respective radial abutment face (34), wherein the clamping elements (8) are provided on a connecting part (10) having at least one elastically deformable portion, which connecting part produces an equal shift of all clamping elements (8) on deformation. A connecting part (10) with the clamping elements (8) is provided on an elastically deformable wall (6), which is constituted by a thin-walled diaphragm (6) extending in a radial plane in relation to the center axis (A), such diaphragm being arranged coaxially in relation to the connecting part (10) and the clamping elements (8).Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: American Hofmann CorporationInventor: Harald Collonia
-
Patent number: 5979380Abstract: A valve timing control device includes a rotor fixed on a cam shaft, a housing member rotatably mounted on the cam shaft so as to surround the rotor, a chamber defined between the housing member and the rotor and having a pair of circumferentially opposed walls, a vane mounted on the rotor and extended outwardly therefrom in the radial direction into the chamber so as to divide each of chamber into a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber, a fluid supplying device for supplying fluid under pressure to at least a selected one of the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber, a locking mechanism for connecting the housing member and the rotor and a canceling device for canceling the locking mechanism and for keeping the locking mechanism canceling by the fluid pressure of the fluid supplying device.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Nakadouzono, Kazumi Ogawa, Katsuhiko Eguchi, Kongo Aoki, Naoki Kira
-
Patent number: 5971999Abstract: This invention is related to an apparatus for microdermoabrasion by means of a jet of a mixture of air and reducing crystals, and the associated handle. The apparatus is used in cosmetic surgery and/or dermatology and utilizes microdermoabrasion wherein a jet of reducing crystals is applied to human tissue. The jet of reducing crystals is, in particular, a jet of corundum crystals (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3).Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Inventor: Moreno Naldoni
-
Patent number: 5972177Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing protein hydrolyzates from animal and/or vegetable starting materials by comminuting the starting materials, mashing the comminuted starting materials into a pumpable mass, decomposing the mashed starting materials in an electric discharge gap and separating the aqueous phase of the decomposition from solid and water-unmixable residues, wherein the starting material is decomposed at a pH value between 10.0 and 14.0 and the decomposed starting material is subjected to a secondary reaction over at least 1 h at a pH value of 10.0 to 14.0, the temperature being at least 70.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1998Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Inventors: Josef Brehm, Claus Berndt, Klaus-Peter Stengele, Winfried Kolbeck
-
Patent number: 5967104Abstract: A valve timing control device for controlling the opening/closing timing of the intake valve or exhaust valve incorporates a valve opening/closing rotary shaft, a rotor provided on the rotary shaft, a timing pulley for receiving rotational power from a crank pulley through a timing belt, a rotation transmitting member provided within the timing pulley and mounted around the rotary shaft to rotate within a predetermined range, a plurality of vanes provided on the rotor or the rotation transmitting member, a fluid chamber formed between the rotor and the rotation transmitting member and separated into advancing chambers and delaying chambers by the vanes, a first fluid passage communicating with the advancing chambers, a second fluid passage communicating with the delaying chambers, and a cooling mechanism for cooling the rotation transmitting member and/or the timing pulley.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1998Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Nakayoshi, Naoki Kira
-
Patent number: D416701Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Global Upholstery CompanyInventor: Jonathan Ginat
-
Patent number: D419215Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1999Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Inventor: Kil Ho Kim
-
Patent number: D419574Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1999Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: Conbis Pty Ltd.Inventor: Ronald Bower