Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Tracy M. Heims
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Patent number: 6831567Abstract: A clamping device having loss-guard function includes a shell body, a circuit unit, and a connection component. The shell body has a receiving space therein. A clamping sheet is disposed on the outer wall of the shell body. The circuit unit is disposed in the receiving space, and can receive signals emitted by an emission component disposed on a portable electronic device. The circuit unit has alarming components. The connection component is connected on the portable electronic device. The connection component also is connected with the shell body in a detachable way. The clamping device can clamp the portable electronic device onto a users waistband. When the portable electronic device is away from the circuit unit a certain distance, the circuit unit will be immediately driven to give out alarming lights or sounds, thereby preventing the portable electronic device from being lost or stolen by thieves.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventor: Sheng Hsin Liao
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Patent number: 6817450Abstract: A brake cable connecting apparatus ensures prevention of brake cable disengagement by a simple structure that offers simple and accurate assemblability. The brake cable connecting apparatus comprises the strut 23 engaging with the brake shoe 12 and the plate-like brake lever engaging with the brake shoe 13. The proximal portion 24a of the brake lever 24 is pivotally positioned in the wider space 23c formed between the two facing surface walls of the strut 23. The cable end 42 of the brake cable 40 is connected with the free end 24e of the brake lever 24 by the connecting pin 43. The inner cable 41 is operated to effectuate braking, and the projection 24g of the free end 24e interferes with the resilient stopper 33 of the resilient member 30 mounted on the strut 23 and is positioned on the rotating trajection of the brake lever 24.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbon Industries Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Takashi Ikeda, Masami Fujiyama
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Patent number: 6809433Abstract: A capacitor unit with plural double layer capacitors eliminating irregularity in a state of charge of the respective double layer capacitor in the capacitor unit. A capacitor unit, a capacitor unit control method, a capacitor unit control apparatus and a vehicle charging system, wherein a chargeable and dischargeable capacitor unit 1 with plural electronic double layer capacitors 11 connected in series is characterized in that electric double layer capacitors 11 in a higher state of charge is subject to discharge so that a state of charging of the respective electric double layer capacitor 11 may become approximately equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.Inventor: Ryutaro Nozu
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Patent number: 6806685Abstract: An accumulator power supply unit equalizing the voltage between terminals of the respective accumulator block to be a predetermined value without being affected by different characteristics of the accumulator block such as electric double layer capacitor and secondary battery in series or serial-parallel connection. The accumulator power supply unit comprises plural accumulator blocks in a series connection or a serial-parallel connection and plural transform charging circuits connected in parallel to the respective accumulator block, wherein the respective accumulator block is independently charged by the transform charging circuit and a control method for the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbo Ind. Inc.Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Takaya Sato
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Patent number: 6793692Abstract: To provide an electrical component, in which ions migrate between electrodes and which provides high efficiency. A method for manufacturing an electrical component, in which ions migrate between electrodes, whereby an ion conductive polymer layer 2 dissolving ions is formed on an electrode material layer 12 of at least one of a pair of electrode structures 1 which comprise an electrode material layer 12 formed on a current collector 11, said pair of electrode structures 1 are arranged at opposed positions with the current collector 11 facing outward, and this is stored in a housing 4, and liquid electrolyte is injected into the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignees: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc., Itochu CorporationInventors: Takaya Sato, Tatsuo Shimizu
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Patent number: 6766887Abstract: A brake cable for a dual mode type drum brake functioning as a leading-trailing type during the service brake and as a duo-servo type during the parking brake, may be easily arranged at a lower side of axle. The first and second brake levers (118), (119) of a parking brake actuator (117) have proximal portions (118a), (119a) pivotally supported between two ends of a second brake shoe (3) and at a lower end thereof; free ends (118b), (119b) extend in opposed direction from the proximal portions (118a), (119a) in parallel to face and functionally engage each other; a strut (120) extends between the second brake lever (119) and the pivot lever (16); and a brake cable (23) pulled to activate the free end (118b) is arranged adjacent to the anchor (7).Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbo Ind. Inc.Inventors: Junichi Ohnishi, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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Patent number: 6763919Abstract: A dual mode drum brake device of this invention is subject to lightning and low-cost without over braking during the parking brake operation. Pistons 10, 11 in a cylinder device 9 push and rotate brake shoes 2, 3 to be separated apart around an abutment point with an anchor 8 during the service brake operation, thereby functioning as a leading trailing brake. An operation force W of the parking brake rotates a lever 14 in a counterclockwise direction around a pin 13, one end of the lever 14 rotates the brake shoe 3 outwardly around a protuberance 12a via the pin 13, and the other end of the lever 1 rotates the lever 12 in a clockwise direction via a strut 15 around the protuberance 12a to rotate the brake shoe 2 outwardly around the abutment point with the anchor 8 via the protuberance 12a.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2001Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.Inventor: Takashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 6732840Abstract: A brake cable connecting apparatus of a brake-actuating mechanism for a drum brake is mainly composed of a brake lever (22) and a strut (21). A cable end (24a) of a brake cable (24) is snapped into a free end (22e) of the brake lever (22) when the brake cable (24) is pulled in the cable operating direction against a spring force of a return spring (15) and disassembled therefrom when the brake cable (24) is removed from the free end (22e) while the brake lever (22) is pressed by a tool (30). A guide section (22h), for supporting a top of the tool (30), is formed on the brake lever (22) at a side relative to the cable releasing direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries Inc.Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Katsuhisa Kurihara
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Patent number: 6700042Abstract: A kind of improved structure of spring driving musical movement, which includes a set of musical base, a set of speed reducer and an upper cover principally.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Kyooh Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lung-Hsi Huang
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Patent number: 6679286Abstract: A compact ball tap with 1 a water level switch which comprises a guide standpipe 5 vertically arranged in a tank T, a float 6 slidably installed on the guide standpipe 5, a valve 3, a lever 4 controlling an open-close action of the valve 3 connected with the float 6, and a water level switch 29 transmitting predetermined control signals when the float 6 shifts to a predetermined water level, wherein one float 6 is shared by the ball tap 1 and the water level switch 29.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Yoshitake Inc.Inventors: Nobuhide Kato, Hiroyuki Mizuno
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Patent number: 6658270Abstract: This invention relates to a displayer-embedded cellular phone battery, which makes use of its back plate to display images like pictures, text and symbols. This invention works with a cellular phone set and is composed of a receiver, a controller, a display driver, a displayer and a battery. This invention provides the power for the cellular phone set. The phone battery also provides the necessary power for the embedded displayer of this invention and the phone battery is both rechargeable and replaceable. The messages could be displayed from the internal preset picture/text/symbol through the internal displayer driver and monitor; while receiving a phone call, the messages also could be displayed through an internal receiver, a displayer driver and monitor to achieve the result for different and animated entire figure.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Inventor: Chang-Jung Lee
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Patent number: 6651782Abstract: A brake cable connecting apparatus having a cable end insertion groove 120a formed by U-like folding the free end of a brake lever 120 on one of brake shoes 1, 2 and a guiding member 150 provided onto the cable end insertion groove 120a. The guiding member 150 tends to move toward the bottom of the insertion groove 120a by a coil spring 160. When the cable end 142 is advanced in the insertion groove 120a, the guiding member 150 moves upward, passage of the cable end 142 is permitted by displacement of the guiding member 150 in a direction away from the bottom of the insertion groove 120a, then the guiding member 150 immediately moves downward, thereby engaging a backward surface of the cable end 142; therefore, restricting the cable end 142 from coming off.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Seiji Asai, Junichi Ohnishi
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Patent number: 6651444Abstract: A method of easily deforming a plate-shape vacuum insulation material and producing a smaller but highly effective insulation container, comprising steps of inserting a thermoplastic open-celled rigid foam as a core material into a packet composed of gas barrier film, evacuating and sealing the packet so as to produce a vacuum insulation material, heating and softening the vacuum insulation material so as to deform the same, and cooling the vacuum insulation material so as to cure the same, and also a freezing and refrigerating container having Peliter element.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Kiyotake Morimoto, Michihiro Oga, Masato Hayashi, Junichi Hosaka, Reishi Naka
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Patent number: 6654868Abstract: Conventional information storage systems are subject to numerous practical constraints such as contiguity in the physical locations of blocks and the requirement that storage blocks be created in advance. Information retrieval in these systems has required the creation of indices, which take a long time to generate, and the structure of these systems makes them prone to deadlock because the indices are updated and the range of exclusion broadened when the referent information is modified. This invention utilizes the random access facilities of semiconductors to achieve high speeds and minimize the maintenance load. This invention introduces location tables and alternate-key tables to replace these indices. It also stores multiple records in a single block and can handle variable-length records and spanned records. The location tables manage the storage blocks.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2003Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Annex Systems IncorporatedInventor: Masaharu Tamatsu
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Patent number: 6640936Abstract: A brake cable connecting apparatus is structured to prevent the inadvertent disengagement of a cable end from the brake lever while transporting a drum brake. The bridge portion (11e) of the strut (11) extends above the free end (12e) of the brake lever (12) leaving a clearance (23), being smaller than the cable end (16a), therebetween. When the brake lever (12) rotates to the predetermined degree, the clearance (23) becomes larger than the cable end (16a) so that the cable end (16a) is able to pass through the clearance (23) between the bridge portion (11e) and the free end (12e).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventor: Takashi Ikeda
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Patent number: 6634270Abstract: An electrode with an excellent quality for an electrical component, wherein an electrode raw material sheet slitter includes a slitting section to slit an electrode raw material sheet for an electrical component; a forming section to conduct smoothing of the convex portion on the slit electrode; electrode cleaning sections to remove fragments adhered on the slit electrode; and, a slitting method of electrode raw material sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Takaya Sato, Tatsuo Shimizu
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Patent number: 6581729Abstract: A compact mechanical shoe actuating mechanism with an improved lever-ratio comprises a space 42 formed by two facing plates 40a and 40b of a strut designed such that an upper side of the space 42 is longitudinally wider than a lower side of the space 42 where the cable end nipple 52 is inserted in and is inclinedly passed through.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventor: Koji Moriwaki
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Patent number: 6581735Abstract: A drum brake device having a brake lever with sufficient rigidity, and securing a larger space at a central region of a brake in order to provide a long, effective brake lever stroke. A by-pass hole 60d, through which the shoe-hold pin 41 swingably rising from the back plate penetrates, is formed in the brake lever 60 positioned beneath the shoe web 20b of the brake shoe 20, and the bending sections 60e, 60f, 60g are integrally formed toward the back plate 10 at the outermost circumferential edge portion of the brake lever 60 surrounding the by-pass hole 60d.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Seiji Asai, Takashi Ikeda
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Patent number: D485774Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Inventors: Shih-Ming Hwang, Shiau-Der Lin, Chien-Jong Hwang, Liang-Lun Hwang
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Patent number: D489633Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Inventor: Shih-Lin Lee