Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Kanesaka & Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6680568
    Abstract: A light emitting device effectively utilizes the light emanating from a semiconductor luminous element, and can acquire clear and high-luminance light emission without a color dapple. The light emitting device is configured as follows. A transparent resin containing a wavelength converting material is provided on a reflecting surface of a base member such as a case, a board and a lead frame. The transparent semiconductor luminous element is bonded and fixed on the transparent resin. A wavelength of light emitted from a lower surface of the semiconductor luminous element is converted by the wavelength converting material, and the converted light is reflected on the reflecting surface. The reflected light is mixed with light emitted from an upper surface of the semiconductor luminous element, and the mixed light is radiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nippon Leiz Corporation
    Inventors: Tsubasa Fujiwara, Akio Nakano
  • Patent number: 6681097
    Abstract: A sheet post-treatment device for receiving a sheet discharged from an image forming apparatus to accumulate and match it comprises: routes including a first conveying route for receiving the sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus; a switch-back route for inverting the received sheet; a second conveying route for conveying the inverted sheet; and a third conveying route for delivering the sheet conveyed onto a treating tray for accumulating and matching the sheet thereon, the switch-back route being arranged downward of the treating tray. The second conveying route is formed along the side wall of the sheet post-treatment device, and at least a part of the switch-back route is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignees: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Kimura, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Kazuhisa Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 6679319
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a connector (7) for connecting a receiver tank (4) brazed to a header pipe (3) and the receiver tank (4) connected to the connector (7) by male screw parts, wherein the connector (7) is formed to have a brazing face (7a) against the header pipe (3) narrower than a mating face (7b) against the receiver tank (4). The connector (7) has a plurality of holes (73), (73) into which a plurality of male screw parts are inserted or screwed, and the holes (73), (73) are formed symmetrically or substantially symmetrically on the brazing face (7a) against the header pipe (3) with respect to a straight line connecting the center of an outflow path (71) and that of an inflow path (72) on the mating face (7b) against the receiver tank (4). And, a groove (74) which divides the brazing face (7a) is formed between the inflow path (71) and the outflow path (72) on the brazing face (7a) against the header pipe (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation
    Inventor: Soichi Kato
  • Patent number: 6679637
    Abstract: An printing apparatus is equipped with a recording medium transport device for transporting a recording medium from a supply portion along a transport path; at least one printing device arranged on the transport path for selectively forming an image on the recording medium or an intermediate transfer medium for temporarily holding the image at a predetermined image forming position; and a transfer device arranged on the transport path for transferring the image formed on the intermediate transfer medium to the recording medium. A mode setting device selects a mode between the first mode in which the printing device forms the image on the recording medium and the second mode in which the printing device forms the image on the intermediate transfer medium. An intermediate transfer medium moving device advances and retracts the intermediate transfer medium between the image forming position and a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Tsuruta, Tsuyoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 6679522
    Abstract: An inflatable airbag includes a rearwardly directed surface to be contacted by the occupant when expanded, an end located at a side opposite to the rearwardly directed surface and having a hole for receiving an inflation gas, and laterally spaced side surfaces extending between the rearwardly directed surface and the end, and oriented substantially vertically in the passenger compartment. The side surfaces have inwardly extending depressions formed in a middle portion of each side surface of the airbag as viewed in a vertical direction and located away from the rearwardly directed surface to restrict movement of the inflation gas inside the airbag when the occupant hits the inflated airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventor: Tadahiro Igawa
  • Patent number: 6676157
    Abstract: A stored-gas inflator includes a pressure-resistant container having a high-pressure-gas chamber and a gas outlet for ejecting gas from the high-pressure-gas chamber; a burst shim attached to the gas outlet for sealing thereof; a duct disposed inside the high-pressure-gas chamber having an end facing the burst shim; and an initiator attached to the duct for generating gas pressure so that the gas pressure is guided through the duct to push the burst shim. The stored-gas inflator can easily eject gas with significantly lower bursting pressure to burst the burst shim, and a lower-output initiator can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichi Nanbu
  • Patent number: 6675198
    Abstract: A network linking together one or more servers and a plurality of network terminals which function on a basic software set downloaded from a server and are uses for remotely operating the application software stored in the servers, configured so that a switch-off command can be sent from a server to all network terminal simultaneously and each of said network terminals, and, in response to the switch-off command, checks whether the basic software set being used on the network terminal requires disconnection from the corresponding server prior to switch-off in order to prevent problems caused by switch-off and then switches off the power after disconnection if the basic software set requires disconnection, or otherwise switches off the power immediately without disconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Takaoka Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hagiwara, Kenji Tatsuo
  • Patent number: 6672554
    Abstract: An article storage device, which is installed in a vehicle, includes a storage section for storing an article and a shutter as a cover for opening and closing an opening of the storage section. The storage section is formed of side surfaces, a back surface and an inner bottom surface to define an inside thereof, and includes guide grooves formed along both protruded rim portions at both sides of the storage section. A shutter is bendable in a sliding direction and attached to the guide grooves. The shutter is formed of a main body bendable at a plurality of thin walled portions, and a plurality of projections provided at both sides of the main body to be fitted in the guide grooves. Each projection is disposed lower than the main body to have a step therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Michihiro Fukuo
  • Patent number: 6669248
    Abstract: A latch includes an attaching part rotationally attached to an attached part, a base plate connected to the attaching part to rotate together with the attaching part on the attached part, and a push-push type cam part connected to the base plate on a side opposite to the attaching part. Elastic pieces are formed to cooperate with the base plate for locating the base plate to a predetermined position while allowing the base plate to rotate together with the attaching part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Shirase
  • Patent number: 6669748
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion liquid of silica particles for polishing with a low content of Na ions and also with a content of ions other than Na ions in a prespecified range. This dispersion liquid is a dispersion liquid of silica particles in which the silica particles having the average particle diameter in the range from 5 to 300 nm is dispersed, and a content of Na ions in the silica particle is less than 100 ppm, while a contents of ions other than Na ions is in the range from 300 ppm to 2 weight %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Catalysts & Chemicals Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Nishida, Yoshinori Wakamiya, Manabu Watanabe, Michio Komatsu
  • Patent number: 6671840
    Abstract: A communication system includes boundary scan elements each having a plurality of boundary cells individually assigned to respective input terminals and output terminals, a TAP circuit for controlling input and output of data, a TDI terminal and TDO terminal for inputting or outputting serial data, a TCK terminal to which a clock signal is input, and a TMS terminal to which a mode signal for switching the operation mode is input; a plurality of terminal units connected with the respective boundary scan elements; and a communication controller connected in series with the boundary scan elements for individual control of the terminal units. Incoming communication lines between the boundary scan elements adjoining each other, and between the boundary scan elements and the communication controller, and an outgoing communication line between the communication controller and the boundary scan element positioned at the backmost are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignees: Koken Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsugu Nagoya
  • Patent number: 6669258
    Abstract: A guide mechanism includes a moving member having the first guide projections and the second guide projection arranged in a triangle shape. A supporting base member for supporting the moving member includes the first guide groove and the second guide groove formed in parallel. Each end portion of the first and second guide grooves includes an arc-shaped branch groove. The first guide projections are inserted into the first guide groove, and the second guide projection is inserted into the second guide groove. The guide projections slide inside the guide grooves and the branch grooves, thereby guiding sliding and turning motions of the moving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Masakatsu Kato
  • Patent number: 6669028
    Abstract: In a cylindrical screen, a screen body has a height greater than its diameter, and is formed of a plurality of portions spaced apart from each other in a direction of the height. Each portion has slits laterally and vertically spaced apart from each other. At least one annular member is situated between two of the plurality of the portions of the screen body to be located radially inside an outer surface of the screen. The annular member has an annular concave formed in a middle thereof extending toward an inner side of the screen from the outer surface of the screen, and a width extending in the direction of the height. The width is greater than a distance of the slits vertically spaced apart from each other. Accordingly, a mat formed on the screen can be easily peeled off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Aikawa Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Aikawa
  • Patent number: 6668430
    Abstract: In a clip for attaching a cover member of the invention, a base plate of the clip is bonded to and fixed at a bottom of a concave section formed in a vehicle. The base plate is provided with a holding section for holding a holder for attaching the cover. Also, plural pairs of elastic pieces elastically abutting against both side surfaces forming the concave section are provided at both sides of the base plate. Accordingly, the clip for attaching the cover member can be easily bonded to and fixed at a center of a width direction of the concave section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Takahide Ichimaru
  • Patent number: 6669288
    Abstract: In a child seat device, a child seat body is connected to a base while a bar disposed at the front bottom thereof is engaged with a guide member disposed at the front of the base, and the child seat body is pivotally supported on the arms standing at the rear of the base via shafts on the right and left rear sides thereof. The guide member extends forward and upward from the front of the base. The bar is movable along the guide member. In the case of a head-on collision of the car, the child seat body pivots on the shafts, so that the bar swings along the guide member to reduce the load to be applied to a passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Nakagawa, Junichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6671492
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming device main body having a discharge portion with a discharge opening for discharging a sheet from one side thereof, a loading tray provided at a top surface of the device main body and lower than the discharge opening for receiving the sheet discharged from the discharge opening, and a sheet finisher unit disposed above the loading tray. The sheet finisher unit includes a supporting device for supporting a conveying direction downstream side of the sheet discharged from the discharge opening, a finishing processing device disposed at one side of the supporting device for carrying out a finishing processing on the sheet supported on the supporting device, and a transfer device for transferring the sheet, which has been processed at the finishing processing means, to the loading tray. The supporting device constitutes the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Mimura, Keiichi Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 6669074
    Abstract: The bonding position between a bonding wire and an electrode is maintained accurately, an ultrasonic horn is mounted to a bonding machine by the attachment portions of support portions situated at minimum vibration amplitude points equally distant from a capillary in opposite directions in such a manner that it is supported on both sides, and the ultrasonic horn, capillary and bonding work portion are vibrated by ultrasonic waves to bond the end portion of the bonding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Ultex Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Sato
  • Patent number: 6668716
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a card transport path composed of the first card transport path for forming an image to a card using a direct transfer method, and the second card transport path composed of a card transport path for transferring an image from an intermediate transfer sheet to the card. An image forming portion is arranged on the first card transport path for forming the image on the card or the intermediate transfer sheet. A transfer portion is arranged to the second card transport path for transferring the image from the intermediate transfer sheet to the card. The first card transport path and the second card transport path intersect while the printing apparatus can switch between the direct transfer method and the indirect transfer method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Nisca Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Tsuruta, Tsuyoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 6666259
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a mold of a metal hot-runner injection molding machine, a temperature gradient of metal disposed in a nozzle between a heating device of the nozzle and a tip of the nozzle is measured. Then, an area in the nozzle is selected based on the measurement of the temperature gradient such that the metal in the nozzle upon a mold opening has a temperature at which a solidified condition of the metal can be stably maintained, where the temperature is close to a melting temperature of the metal. A gate cut portion is determined in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignees: Ju-Oh Inc., The Japan Steel Works Ltd.
    Inventors: Itsuo Shibata, Takashi Mizushima, Ryoichi Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: D485252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki Takita, Yasunobu Shimizu