Patents Represented by Attorney Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP
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Patent number: 7198131Abstract: A mounting bracket 11 formed of a material having a thickness which permits no resistance welding relative to the thickness of a plate constituting a vehicle body frame 10, having a mounting portion 28 which is so thick as not to be welded to the vehicle body frame 10 through resistance welding and on which components to be mounted 13, 14 are mounted, and being provided with a welding portion 33, adapted to be welded to the vehicle body frame 10, which is formed into a thickness which is thinner than the mounting portion 28 and which permits a resistance welding relative to the thickness of the plate which constitutes the vehicle body frame 10.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiromichi Tsushima
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Patent number: 7198670Abstract: A polarization inverting region is formed by using a board comprising a single crystal of lithium tatalate of a stoichiometric composition or near to the stoichiometric composition and applying a direct current electric field having an electric field intensity equal to or lower than 5 [kV/mm] for 1 [second] or longer. A periodically poled region can be formed without needing a complicated constitution for applying a pulse voltage or a complicated constitution for applying a strong electric field.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Katuhiko Tokuda, Kazutomo Kadokura
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Patent number: 7199326Abstract: A positioning jig for a spot-welding electrode includes an attaching portion for temporarily attaching to a workpiece. A positioning portion of the jig is disposed in parallel to a central axis of the attaching portion and spaced from the central axis. The positioning portion has an imaginary central axis coinciding with the central axis of the attaching portion. With the attaching portion attached to that part of a workpiece surface which is to be spot welded, the electrode is set on the central axis of the attaching portion. An inclination of the electrode is corrected to make the electrode stand parallel to the positioning portion such that, even when the workpiece surface is curved, the electrode can be positioned perpendicularly to the workpiece surface part to be spot welded.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Kon
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Patent number: 7198299Abstract: In a structure of a pillar garnish for an automobile, a leg is provided to protrude toward a webbing from a lower edge of a step formed at a lower end of one of an upper pillar garnish and a lower pillar garnish which are formed by dividing a pillar garnish section, and webbing guide is provided at a tip end of the leg. Therefore, even if a sink mark is created on a surface of the step of the upper pillar garnish corresponding to the position of the leg, the sink mark is covered with an upper end of the lower pillar garnish and thus invisible from the side of a vehicle compartment, so that it is possible to prevent the degradation of the appearance due to the creation of the sink mark. Moreover, a back of the lower pillar garnish is superposed on a surface of the step formed on the upper pillar garnish. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the generation of a difference in level at a joint between both of the pillar garnishes to enhance the appearance.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kajiwara, Junji Sugimoto, Takamitsu Kasai, Nobumoto Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 7198300Abstract: An actuator for an adjustable seat belt D-ring anchor is provided that is easily reached by a vehicle operator while in a seated position and that blends in with the interior of the vehicle. The actuator includes a slider garnish that in turn supports a button garnish. Upon pressing the button garnish, a lever on the button garnish actuates a button assembly on a vehicle that in turn releases a locking pin on the anchor, allowing the anchor to be moved.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eric Daume, Troy Medlar, Koji Uno, Hideyuki Tanahashi, Kenji Betsui
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Patent number: 7197837Abstract: The invention is directed to a gauge assembly that is used to measure parameters of camshaft journals or other objects with cylindrical surfaces. The gauge assembly includes two gauges, the first is an air snap gauge and the second a linear variable differential transducer. The air snap gauge is slidingly attached to the base and the second gauge is attached to a base as well. Air resistance measurements, taken through the air snap gauge provide a measure of diameter of the journal while relative linear motion between the base and air snap gauge, measured by the second gauge, provides a measure of journal runout relative to the center axis of the camshaft. Control logic is used to calculate other parameters such as runout of a journal relative to another journal on a common camshaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: William C. Blanford, Dale Grieshop
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Patent number: 7200474Abstract: Protection apparatus includes: a seat back pivotable between reclined and upright positions; a pivoting-angle adjustment section for adjusting the pivoting angle of the seat back through a motor; a prediction section for predicting an object likely to collide against the vehicle from behind; a control section for controlling the adjustment section, in accordance with a prediction signal generated by the prediction section, to cause the seat back to be pivoted to a practically vertical upright position. The control section is arranged to control the adjustment section in accordance with not only the prediction signal but also an operation signal from a manual seat operating section. When the prediction signal has been received, the control section controls the adjustment section to cause the seat back to be pivoted to the practically vertical upright position at higher speed than when the operation signal has been received.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuki Motozawa, Koki Sato, Ryozo Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 7197836Abstract: Positions of a plurality of reference points arranged on a reference plate (200) having a larger area than a measurement area of a measuring machine (300) are obtained as coordinate points on a standardized reference coordinate system. First, the plurality of reference points are grouped according to the measurement area of the measuring machine (300). At this time, the reference points are grouped so that one of the groups shares a predetermined number or more of the reference points with the other one of the groups (a grouping step). The reference points are measured for each of the groups (a measuring step).Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventor: Naoya Kikuti
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Patent number: 7195305Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the rigidity of vehicle body can appropriately control the rigidity of a vehicle body. An apparatus for varying rigidity includes a plurality of (e.g. three) plate-like members comprising shape-memory alloy, and a plurality of (e.g. two) connecting-disconnecting members that are detachably connected to the plate-like members. Each connecting-disconnecting member includes a base member that detachably connects to the plurality of plate-like members via a connecting member fitted to each plate-like member, a plurality of pairs of pin guides and movable pin members that are fitted to the base member, and a plurality of (e.g. two) actuators that are controlled by an unillustrated controller.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuta Urushiyama, Shunji Suzuki
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Patent number: 7196510Abstract: The invention provides an induction type displacement detector capable of achieving an improved resolution and high precision. The induction type displacement detector comprises a scale, and a sensor head movable along a measurement axis. A plurality of flux coupling windings are arranged on the scale along the measurement axis. A receiving winding is arranged on the sensor head, including receiving loops arrayed along the measurement axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventor: Osamu Kawatoko
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Patent number: 7195306Abstract: A floor structure of a vehicle body capable of enhancing rigidity against a external force from a side of the vehicle body includes a pair of right and left side sills, a pair of front and rear cross members provided between the pair of right and left side sills, and a floor panel surrounded by the pair of right and left side sills and the pair of front and rear cross members. The floor panel is provided thereover with beads in a concentric arc shape spreading from parts at which the side sills and the cross members are vertically joined to each other. Reinforcement members are provided at corners defined by the side sills and the cross members in such a manner that the reinforcement members are slantingly placed and joined to the side sills and cross members.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhisa Egawa, Shigeto Yasuhara, Toshiaki Sato, Akihisa Kudoh
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Patent number: 7196857Abstract: An image pickup module comprises a substrate mounting an image pickup element thereon, a holder mounted on the substrate so as to cover the image pickup element, the holder including a barrel portion for supporting a light receiving lens, the barrel portion having a stopper portion at its inner circumferential surface, a lens holder holding the light receiving lens, the lens holder being screwed and fixed into the barrel portion of the holder, and a spacer interposed between the stopper portion of the holder and the lens holder, the spacer being integrally formed with a sheet-like infrared ray cut film.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries CO., Ltd.Inventor: Yoichi Kazama
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Patent number: 7195229Abstract: In a direct injection type automatic sampler, a sampling needle having a liquid sample collected from a sample vessel by using suction force of a pump is inserted into an injection port. Then, a flow path-switching valve is rotated to switch a flow path to make a flow of mobile phase liquid pass through a loop to thereby introduce the collected sample into a column. The injection port is directly incorporated in the flow path-switching valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2003Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Yoshiaki Maeda
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Patent number: 7194818Abstract: A mount table having a mount surface on which a workpiece as an object to be measured or worked includes a support unit for supporting the mount table so as to be floated from a surface plate so that the mount table can freely move or rotate on the surface plate finished to be plane or fixing and supporting the mount table on the surface plate and a plurality of artifact for measuring a plurality of attitudes on the mount table to detect the positions and rotations of the mount table in respective attitudes.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventor: Seiichi Otsubo
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Patent number: 7194923Abstract: A thin-film resistor (5) provided on a strain-generating part (2) via an insulating film (4) and an electrode thin-film (6) including an electrode pad (10) arranged in the thin-film resistor (5) are provided. The thin-film resistor (5) includes a strain-detecting thin-film resistive part (8) and an electrode connection (9) connected to the resistive part (8). The electrode connection (9) is formed to extend to the electrode pad (10). The electrode pad (10) includes an external-connection bonding area (12) and a testing probe area (13) formed at different positions. The electrode pad (10) is disposed on a tubular rigid body (1) provided at the outer peripheral edge of a strain-generating part (2).Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: Nagano Keiki Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Yoshida, Hiroshi Kodama, Hiroshi Nagasaka
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Patent number: 7191540Abstract: A work piece holder includes a base plate, a slide plate, a rotary indexing device, a support assembly, a spindle, and a pallet receiver. The slide plate is manually slidable over the base plate between a plurality of predetermined positions. The rotary indexing device is affixed to the slide plate, and has the support assembly secured thereto and rotated thereby into a desired angular orientation about a first axis of rotation. The spindle is secured to the support assembly, and defines a second axis of rotation that is generally perpendicular to the first axis of rotation. The spindle is manually rotatable about the second axis of rotation between a plurality of predetermined rotary positions. The pallet receiver, which is secured to the spindle and is rotatable therewith about the first and second axes, is adapted to releasably receive a pallet to which a work piece is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventors: Robert J. Brewer, James A. Christian
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Patent number: 7194087Abstract: A phone holding assembly adapted to hold a mobile telephone and including an outer member and an inner member. The outer member includes a series of mounting tabs that are adapted to releasably secure the phone holding assembly to a panel. The inner member includes mounting ears that extend through openings in the outer member to releasably secure the inner member to the outer member. When the inner member is secured within the outer member, a phone of a first size can be received therein, while when the inner member is removed from the outer member, a phone of a second, larger size can be held.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Neal W. Luginbill, Taro Shimokobe, Yuri Starik, Marek Myszkowski
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Patent number: 7192464Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for use in pressed powder metallurgy. The composition includes a plurality of substantially dry, discrete agglomerates, a portion of which include a first metal particle adhered to a second metal particle by a binder that includes a polysaccharide. The composition can be used to form green compacts that exhibit excellent green strength and high density. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of the composition, a method of forming a metal part using the composition and metal parts formed according to the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Apex Advanced Technologies, LLCInventor: Dennis L. Hammond
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Patent number: 7188893Abstract: A front part structure of a vehicle body for efficiently absorbing collision energy acting from the front of the vehicle body is provided. The front part structure of the vehicle body includes right and left front side members extending longitudinally of the vehicle body within an engine compartment separated by a dashboard. A crossmember is attached to the dashboard and extended between the right and left front side members. A floor tunnel extending longitudinally of the vehicle body is joined to a rear end portion of an extension of the crossmember. Collision energy acting from the front of the vehicle body is transmitted from the front side members to the crossmember, and then is transmitted through the extension of the crossmember to the floor tunnel and dispersed throughout the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kosuke Akasaka
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Patent number: 7189421Abstract: p-Menthane-3,8-diol (PMD) has antiseptic, antibiotic, fungicidal and bactericidal properties. It is used for these purposes in the form of compositions and method comprising the PMD and optionally a carrier. A method of treating acne, folliculitis body, scalp folliculitis, Hydradinitis suppuritiva dandruff, seborrhoeic dermatitis (scalp or body), pityriasis versicolor, pityrosporun folliculitis, tinea corporis, tinea pedis, tinea cruris, tinea capitis, tinea unguum, tinea folliculitis or rosacea in a patient including administering an effective amount of PMD.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Inventor: Paul Douglas Clarke