Patents Represented by Law Firm Smith, Gambell & Russell, LLP
  • Patent number: 6155085
    Abstract: There is provided a narrow tape used as a component for adjusting the size of the waste of slacks, a skirt and the like. The tape has a ground fabric in a tape shape knitted or woven and inlay yarn integrally held by threads composing the ground fabric. The inlay yarn is thicker than the threads composing the ground fabric. A part of the inlay yarn projects from one surface of the ground fabric to form a projection. The projection includes a plurality of parts extending along the width of the ground fabric, and the parts are arranged with predetermined spacing along the length of the ground fabric to define recesses thereamong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignees: Shindo Seni Kogyo Co., Ltd., Morito Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Shindo
  • Patent number: 6026263
    Abstract: A developing device having a container including a pair of side walls disposed with spacing, an entry port and a delivery port defined between the side walls, and a main wall extending between the entry port and the delivery port. A rotating shaft is rotatably mounted between the pair of side walls of the container, and agitator/conveyor means is mounted on the rotating shaft. A blind hole circular in cross section is formed at an inner surface of one of the side walls, and one end portion of the rotating shaft is rotatably inserted into the blind hole. At least one discharge groove is formed at an outer peripheral surface of the one end portion of the rotating shaft. The agitator/conveyor means is composed of a flexible agitating/conveying member extending from the rotating shaft in a radial direction of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinobu Nakahata, Shinya Kawakami, Takeshi Aoki, Hiroshi Inui
  • Patent number: 6006803
    Abstract: A special jointing metal device for advanced framework construction method includes a flat plate section having a rectangular shape and cylindrical sections which are provided to the flat plate section in one body along opposite edges of the flat plate section, so that wooden members are jointed to one another by inserting the special jointing metal device into holes each of which is formed in the corresponding wooden member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Nakanishi Koumuten Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Nakanishi, Eiji Furuta, Masao Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 5906509
    Abstract: A charger with replaceable electrical plugs includes a casing 1 comprising a lower casing 11 and an upper casing 12. An electronic power supply circuit 13 is accommodated inside the casing 1. The lower casing 11 has an opening 111 having a replaceable electrical plug 14 pivotally disposed therein to adapt to different specifications of electrical sockets used in different countries. The power supply circuit 13 may convert ac into low voltage dc for use by small electrical appliances. The upper housing 12 is provided with a tubular recess 122 pivotally provided with a cigarette lighter plug 15 which may fit into a car's cigarette lighter socket. The power supply circuit 13 may transform the car's high voltage dc into low voltage dc to provide electric power outdoors. Different replaceable electrical plugs 14 and 14' allow the charger device to be adapted for use in various different countries, which use various different power outlet structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Formosa Electronic Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Wu