Patents Represented by Law Firm Varndell Legal Group
  • Patent number: 5925705
    Abstract: Aqueous dispersion of a vinylidene fluoride (VdF) polymer which comprises a VdF polymer having a particle size of not more than 200 nm and contains 30 to 50% by weight of solids and not more than 1% by weight of a fluorine-containing surfactant on the basis of water. This aqueous dispersion is prepared by emulsion-polymerizing VdF monomer or a monomer mixture containing VdF under coexistence of not more than 1% by weight of the fluorine-containing surfactant and 0.001 to 0.1% by weight of a nonionic non-fluorine-containing surfactant on the basis of water, and is suitably used for paints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Araki, Nobuhiko Tsuda, Masahiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 5922274
    Abstract: A titanium alloy having improved heat resistance in addition to the inherent properties of lightness and corrosion resistance. The alloy consists essentially of, by weight %, Al: 5.0-7.0%, Sn: 3.0-5.0%, Zr: 2.5-6.0%, Mo: 2.0-4.0%, Si: 0.05-0.80%, C: 0.001-0.200%, O: 0.05-0.20%, optionally further one or two of Nb and Ta: 0.3-2.0%, and the balance of Ti and inevitable impurities. A method of producing parts from this alloy comprises subjecting the titanium alloy of the above described alloy composition to heat treatment at a temperature of .beta.-region, combination of rapid cooling and slow cooling or combination of water quenching and annealing, hot processing in .alpha.+.beta. region, solution treatment and aging treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Toshiharu Noda, Michio Okabe
  • Patent number: 5919851
    Abstract: A paint composition comprising, as a leveling agent, 0.01 to 3.0 parts by weight of a polyfluorinated carbon chain-containing compound and 0.01 to 3.0 parts by weight of a silicone oil per 100 parts by weight of a film forming component and being capable of forming a film being excellent in water- and oil-repelling property and stain resistance, and painted articles being excellent in water- and oil-repelling property and stain resistance can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seitaro Yamaguchi, Koichiro Ogita, Nobuyuki Tomihashi
  • Patent number: 5916343
    Abstract: A thermo-shrinking film cutting mechanism used in a labeling machine, including a plurality of cutter units mounted on locating frames and equiangularly spaced around a center guide shaft, each cutter unit including a crank shaft, axle bearings, a coupling plate, an index plate, a locating plate, a cutter holder, a cutter blade and a clamping plate, a transmission mechanism driven to rotate said cutter units, causing said cutter units to cut a thermo-shrinking film, the transmission mechanism including a transmission disk having a plurality of receiving holes, which hold a respective axle bearing, which supports the eccentric upper section of one crank shaft, enabling the crank shafts of the cutter units to be rotated synchronously when the crank shaft of one cutter unit is rotated by a transmission belt through a transmission wheel, the cutter holder being slidably mounted in a transverse bottom groove on the locating plate and fixed in place by an adjustment screw to hold the respective cutter blade at the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Inventors: Fu-Chuan Huang, Chien-Tsai Huang, Chin-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 5911823
    Abstract: A method for pulling a <110> single-crystal silicon aims at preventing the crystal from being cut in diameter-reducing and suppress the increase in cost due to the cut prevention to the minimum. In the step for forming a diameter-reduced portion performed prior to the step for growing a <110> single-crystal silicon by the Czochralski method, a magnetic field having a strength of 500 gauss or more is applied and while suppressing a melt surface vibration and temperature variation, the crystal diameter is reduced to 2.00 mm or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Komatsu Electronics Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouji Sonoda, Toshio Mimura
  • Patent number: 5911154
    Abstract: A wrench torque value callibrating apparatus having a flexible main rod coupled to an actuating member, and a torque meter with a probe disposed in contact with the flexible main rod for measuring the torque value of the wrench to be calibrated, wherein two flexible auxiliary rods are coupled to the actuating member in parallel to the flexible main rod for fine calibration adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 5908357
    Abstract: A golf club head having a plurality of pores spaced along scoring lines of a face in front of a recessed top chamber thereof, and a circular through hole at the center of a back wall thereof behind the recessed top chamber for guiding air out of the recessed top chamber when striking the ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 5907202
    Abstract: A thermo-sensitive actuator capable of operating without the need of providing a temperature detector as a separate member. The actuator includes a stator made of a magnetic material to form a yoke. A rotor is rotatably provided in an opening provided in the stator. The actuator further includes pole pieces for magnetically connecting the stator and the rotor. A magnetic source is provided in any of the magnetic paths formed by the constituent elements. A thermo-sensitive magnetic material, which shows a change in magnetic characteristics, e.g. permeability, saturated magnetic flux density, or residual magnetic flux density, according to temperature, is provided in a part of the magnetic paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Mikuni Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Muraji
  • Patent number: 5904637
    Abstract: A folding collapsible jogging exerciser includes a bottom frame, two upright supports and two handlebars raised from the bottom frame, a top frame fastened to the upright supports and coupled to the handlebars, and a rack having one end pivoted to the upright supports on which the user jogs, wherein a stand is pivoted to the rack and turned to support the free end of the rack on the floor between two tilted positions; one upright support has a lug for securing the rack in a collpased position; the bottom frame has a U-shaped frame bar, two movable frame bars hinged to the U-shaped frame bar, and a connecting frame bar detachably connected to the movable frame bars by screws to secure the bottom frame between an extended position and a collapsed position, the connecting frame bar being equipped with wheels, that make the jogging exercise easy to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Johnson Kuo
  • Patent number: 5905637
    Abstract: A module plug includes a circuit board mounted in a mounting space on a casing to hold a front terminal rack and a rear terminal rack and a plurality of terminals in terminal holes on the front terminal rack and the rear terminal rack, a top cover covered on the casing and fastened to the rear terminal rack to hold a signal line, permitting the electrical wires of the signal line to be respectively forced into contact with the terminals on the rear terminal rack, the circuit board being convenient for the installation of an interference prevention circuit to prevent the terminals from interfering with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Hsing Chau Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gorden Su
  • Patent number: 5904015
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a connecting structure of a cover plate for a network floor. The floor supports or floor plate bodies for the network floor are integrally formed with a hollow portion, a frame rim portion, and a central pillar on the center portion the floor supports or floor plate bodies. Locking rims are provided on the periphery of the cover plate which engage with grooves provided in the frame rim portion of the floor supports or in the floor plate bodies. Long side covers are also provided and have rim portions extending downward on the long sides thereof. The rim portions of the long side covers also engage the grooves of the frame rim portion of the floor supports or the floor plate bodies. In addition, a central cover is provided that has locking rims which engage grooves of the two adjacent floor supports or floor plate bodies. The assembled structure has improved strength that prevents the network floor from sliding or deforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Chen
  • Patent number: 5899743
    Abstract: A method for efficiently fabricating semiconductor wafers of good planarization without utilizing chemical solutions of high etching rate is disclosed. The method slices a single-crystal ingot into slices of wafers. The edge of each wafer is chamfered. A lapping step is carried out to planarize the chamfered wafer. Both side surfaces of the wafer are then polished. Next, the wafer surface is mirror polished. Finally, the wafer is cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Komatsu Electronic Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Kai, Masahiko Maeda, Jun-ichi Yamashita, Toshiharu Yubitani, Hirofumi Hajime, Takamitsu Harada
  • Patent number: 5896639
    Abstract: A hydraulic puller for removing an element from an axle, including a hydraulic pipe, a pawl assembly mounted on the hydraulic pipe and controlled to catch the element to be removed from an axle, a movable rod movable fastened to the hydraulic pipe, and an oil tank assembly connected to the hydraulic pipe by a connecting pipe. The oil tank assembly comprising an air permeable oil container filled with a hydraulic oil and covered by a casing, and the casing having two air holes at two opposite locations. The hydraulic puller further having a hand lever, a piston rod moved by the hand lever to force the hydraulic oil out of the oil container late the hydraulic pipe to move the movable rod out of the hydraulic pipe, and spring means fastened to the hydraulic pipe to automatically move the movable rod back to its former position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Inventor: Jui-Nien Chen
  • Patent number: 5896596
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a high power water stream performing an effective massage without producing undesired vibration and noise including an outer tub 1, an inner tub 2 arranged within the outer tub, passages 3 formed in a bottom wall of the outer tub, passages 2c formed in a side wall of the inner tub, a tubular members 4 provided at the passages 2c and having inner diameters which are gradually increased toward an inner space S3, a pump 5 arranged between a space S2 between side walls of outer and inner tubs and having jet nozzles 8 which are positioned at inlets of the jet nozzles, and a motor 7 coupled with the pump 5 by means of a drive shaft assembly 6. When the motor 7 is energized to drive the pump 5, water streams are projected at a very high speed from the jet nozzles into the tubular members 4. Then, the water in the space S2 is sucked into the inlets of the tubular members, and the water streams are projected from the outlets of the tubular members 4 at a very high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignees: Nitto Kogyo Co., Ltd., Rally Master Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 5897198
    Abstract: A ratchet wrench having a lamp circuit assembly mounted in a stepped longitudinal center through hole defined within a ratchet unit thereof, the lamp circuit assembly including a lamp holder, a battery cell, a metal spring connected between the lamp holder and the battery cell, a switch fastened to the ratchet unit by a screw joint, and a metal contact plate turned with the switch to close/open the circuit of the battery cell so as to turn on/off the lamp holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 5897743
    Abstract: A peeling jig is provided for peeling a bonded wafer having voids formed in bonding surfaces so as to rebond, which does not injure the bonding surfaces or cause the adherence of particles thereto. The peeling jig includes a wedge portion 1a for inserting into the bonding surfaces, and a flat portion provided at the both sides of the base of the wedge portion. The apex angle of the wedge portion, when the chamfered angles at the bonding sides of the supporting substrate and active wafer of the bonded wafer to be separated are respectively .alpha. and .beta., is .theta. and .theta.>.alpha.+.beta.. When the wedge portion is inserted into the bonding surfaces, the right and left inclined surfaces of the wedge portion are in contact with the peripheries of the chamfered portions, and then chamfered portions are flared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Komatsu Electronic Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Fujimoto, Hiroshi Furukawa, Hirotaka Kato
  • Patent number: 5895188
    Abstract: A form panel quick fastener including a clamping plate having an elongated channel base fixedly fastened to a form panel at an outer side and a through hole disposed in the middle of the elongated channel base and aligned with a through hole of the form panel and a barrel raised from the elongated channel base at an inner side around the through hole of the clamping plate; a screw rod inserted through the through hole of the clamping plate and the through hole of the form panel and having a spiral groove around the periphery; and a ball thrust bearing sleeved onto the screw rod and forced into engagement with the barrel of the clamping plate to hold down the screw rod, the ball thrust bearing including a hexagonal head having a center through hole which receives the screw rod, a tubular flange perpendicularly raised from the hexagon head at one side around said center through hole of the hexagon head, a plurality of spiral holes spaced around the tubular flange at different elevations, and a plurality of stee
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Inventor: Tsan-Hsiung Cheng
  • Patent number: D409206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Coido Corporation
    Inventor: Min-Hsieng Wang
  • Patent number: D409372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Inventor: Shu-Fu Wang
  • Patent number: D409627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Coido Corporation
    Inventor: Min-Hsieng Wang