Patents Represented by Attorney Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP
  • Patent number: 8256029
    Abstract: A glove having a fiber glove coated and impregnated with a polyurethane resin that is superior in wearing/removing efficiency and grip property between the glove and thumb and fingers and also in strength and flexibility. The glove is superior in workability, strength, durability, and flexibility, as well as in waterproofness. The glove hasa fiber glove coated and impregnated with a polyurethane resin such that resin films or resin regions having an uneven surface like a knit or weave pattern of the yarn are formed on a partial or entire surface in the impregnated resin regions on the inside surface by the resin impregnated from the outside surface to the inside surface, and the dynamic friction coefficient of the inside surface of the glove having the resin films or resin regions is 0.8 to 1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Showa Glove Co.
    Inventors: Terukazu Fujihana, Ryohei Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8256115
    Abstract: Each of ridges 7 on respective opposite side surfaces of a gasket 4 has a trapezoidal cross sectional shape defined by an outer tapered face 7a providing an outer peripheral surface, an inner tapered face 7b providing an inner peripheral surface and a flat face 7c providing a top end surface. The hardness of the gasket 4, the angle between the tapered faces 7a, 7b of the ridge 7, the height of the ridge 7 and the area of the flat top end face 7c of the ridge are so determined that the value of thrust for tightening up the coupling is between a predetermined minimum value and a predetermined maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Shigeru Itoi, Michio Yamaji, Tsutomu Shinohara, Kenji Tsubota, Tadanobu Yoshida, Susumu Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8258222
    Abstract: A composition for epihalohydrin vulcanized rubber excellent in heat resistance while keeping good vulcanization rate and store stability, comprising (a) an epihalohydrin robber, (b) a metal soap, (c) an acid acceptor, and (d) a vulcanizing agent, the composition further preferably containing (e) a fatty acid for suppressing vulcanization, or preferably containing (f) an alcohol for accelerating vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Daiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyofumi Otaka, Shigeru Shoji, Yasushi Hamura, Toshiyuki Funayama
  • Patent number: 8255878
    Abstract: Via an internal bus 69, a host emulation unit 61 of a control procedure unit 60 loads a program under development into, and sends program execution control commands to, a program under development execution unit 70 which includes an engine processor. In response to these program execution control commands, the program under development execution unit 70 performs execution starting, stopping, pausing, or resumption of the program under development. On the other hand, execution mode setting information for the program under development is sent from an execution mode setting unit 62 of the control procedure unit 60 via the internal bus 69 to the program under development execution unit 70, in response to commands from the user. Based upon this execution mode setting information, the program execution operation by the engine processor is controlled by the program under development execution unit 70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Toshiro Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8251059
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a powder inhaler enabling the user to complete powder drug inhalation with fewer steps, for improved user convenience. A powder inhaler of the present invention comprises: a housing 1A having an admission port 2f on one end; a supplier having a drug-discharging hole, provided inside the housing 1A with a capacity sufficient to contain plural doses of a fine powder drug; a drug carrier having a measurement concave portion for receiving a single dose of a drug from the drug-discharging hole, the drug carrier being supported inside the housing 1A while being movable between a drug-receiving position for allowing drug supply from the drug-discharging hole to the measurement concave portion, and a drug-inhalation position for allowing drug inhalation from the measurement concave portion through the admission port; a cover cap C2 pivotably mounted to the housing 1A; and a vibrating means 60 brought into operation by pivoting the cover cap C2 so as to vibrate the supplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Otsuka Techno Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Nishibayashi, Shintaro Adachi, Tetsuya Sato, Takaaki Nakao
  • Patent number: 8251230
    Abstract: A notched wire 4 that is disposed in layers in a filtration apparatus. First projection stripes 4d are formed on the top surface 4b of a base 4a at prescribed intervals in the longitudinal direction of the base 4a so as to extend in the width direction of the base 4a. Second projection stripes 4e are formed approximately at the centers of the first projection stripe 4d so as to extend between the first projection stripes 4d•4d. The second projection stripes 4e are projection stripes having an approximately semicircular cross section, for example. The second projection stripes 4e is smaller in height than the first projection stripes 4d, and the width of the second projection stripes 4e is shorter than the length of the first projection stripes 4d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kanagawa Kiki Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Y Takahashi, Thanh Trung Phan
  • Patent number: 8252479
    Abstract: The solid oxide fuel cell of the present invention has a substrate (1); an electrolyte (3) that is disposed on one surface of the substrate (1); and at least one electrode element E having an anode (5) and a cathode (7) disposed on the same surface of the electrolyte (3) with a predetermined space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yoshikata, Koichi Mikami, Hirotoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8250898
    Abstract: A brake disk producing method, comprising a periphery pressing step for forming an outer peripheral shape (5) of a rotor plate (2) into a peripheral shape having recesses and ridges (5a, 5b) repeated in a radial direction, and a chamfering step for forming a chamfered surface (6) by pressing, against a corner portion (2d) on an outer peripheral edge of the rotor plate (2), a die (7), and a brake disk made by the method. Accordingly, it is possible to improve heat radiation capability, reduce the weight and moment of inertia, improve safety in handling, and suppress increase in production costs. Furthermore, by forming the chamfered surface (6), the amount of wear of a brake pad pressed by the brake disk (1) can be reduced, and durability of braking performance can be maintained or improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sunstar Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Tadashi Takenaka, Koji Tamura
  • Patent number: 8254008
    Abstract: A blade drive device includes: a board including an optical path opening; first and second blades cooperatively defining an amount of light passing through the optical path opening to a given amount of light. The first blade includes a first opening. The second blade includes: a first cutout portion defining the amount of light in cooperation with the first opening; and a second cutout portion defining the amount of light in cooperation with the first opening. The second cutout portion overlaps the first blade when the first cutout portion and the first opening cooperatively define the amount of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Worachai Jaitham, Prapas Charoensilputthakun
  • Patent number: 8251464
    Abstract: A brake fluid pressure control device for vehicles is provided capable of adjusting with a simple control a brake fluid pressure applied to a wheel brake. The control device includes for each system of an X-pipe arrangement: a cut valve as a linear solenoid valve provided to a first fluid pressure path; a pump capable of pressurizing brake fluid on a side toward the wheel brakes than the cut valve on the first fluid pressure path; and a control valve provided on the second fluid pressure path. The control device further includes: a target fluid pressure setting portion for setting a target fluid pressure for each of the wheel brake; and a valve actuating portion for drive-controlling the cut valve and the control valve, based on the target fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Nomura, Takeshi Kojima
  • Patent number: 8248744
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a voltage detecting apparatus, which can downsize a circuit, reduce costs and detect a voltage with high accuracy, the voltage detecting apparatus to detect a voltage by using a flying capacitor. Furthermore, the voltage detecting apparatus does not halt whole functions. The first zener diode is connected to the first resistor R1, which divides a voltage stored with the capacitor as a flying capacitor into a detectable voltage at a microcomputer, in parallel. Furthermore, the voltage detecting apparatus prevents more than a zener voltage of the first zener diode from applying to the input of the microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Toshiaki Takeshita, Mitsuteru Yano
  • Patent number: 8246087
    Abstract: Coupling members each have a fluid channel having an opening passageway orthogonal to an abutting end face of the coupling member, and a slanting main passageway communicating with the opening passageway. The opening passageway has diameter equal to the inside diameter of a gasket holding annular ridge of the coupling member. A gasket has an inside diameter smaller than the diameter of the opening passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Michio Yamaji, Tsutomu Shinohara, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8247694
    Abstract: A curved wall portion along which a wiring harness is bendably extended has a foreign-matter-escape side opening, at one wall continuing to a top opening of an upward guiding cylinder of a protector. A foreign-matter-escape side opening on the other wall of the cylinder proximate to the opening is opposed to the curved wall portion. A projection on the other wall in the guiding cylinder and below the side opening of the wall has an upwardly sloping surface continuing thereto. A projection in the guiding cylinder is above the side opening of the other wall, traversing the cylinder. The protector includes one separate protector member and the other separate protector member, the former having a projection extending toward the latter to cover a joining area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketsu, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Ryuuya Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Nakahama
  • Patent number: 8249270
    Abstract: A sound signal correcting apparatus converts an acquired sound signal into a phase spectrum and an amplitude spectrum by an FFT process, compares the amplitude spectrum of the obtained sound signal with a noise model so that a correction coefficient used for correcting the amplitude spectrum of the sound signal is derived, smoothes waveform of the amplitude spectrum of the sound signal using the derived correction coefficient, and converts the sound signal into a sound signal where the amplitude spectrum is corrected by performing an inverse FFT process on the phase spectrum and the smoothed amplitude spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Naoshi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8241063
    Abstract: The invention provides a connector including: a shield case having first and second slots; first and second bodies, inserted into the case and combined in an insertion direction; first and second contacts embedded in the first body at spaced intervals in a width direction; and third and fourth contacts embedded in the second body at spaced intervals in the width direction and at a different height from that of the first and second contacts. The first and third contacts are partly received in the first slot. The second and fourth contacts are partly received in the second slot. The case has a partition to partition an internal space thereof into the first and second slots, and a lock piece provided at a rear portion of the case. The first and second bodies are sandwiched between the partition and the lock piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagata, Takahisa Ohtsuji
  • Patent number: 8241064
    Abstract: The invention provide a connector including a body having an insulating property, a contact provided in the body, a tuboid shield case adapted to receive the body, and a reinforcing member. The shield case includes a bent portion being a portion of the shield case bent inward and extending in an insertion direction of the body, and a depression being provided on a backside of the bent portion and extending in the insertion direction. The reinforcing member is configured to fit in at least a part of the depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Ohtsuji, Takayuki Nagata
  • Patent number: 8235769
    Abstract: To provide an electron beam assisted EEM method that can realize ultraprecision machining of workpieces, including glass ceramic materials, in which at least two component materials different from each other in machining speed in a machining process are present in a refined mixed state and the surface state is not even, to a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.05 nm RMS. The EEM method comprises a working process in which a workpiece and chemically reactive fine particles are allowed to flow along the working face to remove atoms on the working face chemically bonded to the fine particles together with the fine particles through chemical interaction between the fine particles and the working face interface. The workpiece comprises at least two component materials present in a refined mixed state and different from each other in machining speed in the machining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: JTEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yuzo Mori
  • Patent number: 8235690
    Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll compressor capable of improving the oil separating device of a refrigerant gas discharged from a scroll compression element to effectively suppress the amount of oil to be discharged through a discharge tube. The scroll compressor has, in a sealed container, a scroll compression element, a motor element which drives the scroll compression element, and a support frame having a bearing portion which keeps a shaft of the motor element, and provided with a communication path. The scroll compressor further includes a shield plate which extends from the support frame to the motor element side to surround the periphery of the bearing portion, and a guide member provided at an outlet of the communication path to guide the discharged gas in the direction of the shield plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Koike, Satoshi Iitsuka, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8238587
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electret condenser microphone including a diaphragm, a frame adapted to affix the diaphragm to, and a backplate positionable inside the frame and opposite the diaphragm with a space reserved therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Yuasa, Hidenori Motonaga
  • Patent number: D664936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nakayama, Takahiko Mitsui