Patents Represented by Attorney Varndell & Varndell, PLLC
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Patent number: 6789412Abstract: An oil pressure signal output device which is easy to be integrated with an additional EPC valve and can be manipulated inside/outside a driver's cab. The device makes it possible to reduce the occupied area of hydraulic apparatuses in the driver's cab and to extend a space other than that of hydraulic apparatuses. In the device: the manual oil pressure signal output device for controlling a first hydraulic apparatus, the first electric oil pressure signal output device and the selecting output means are integrated; a second electric oil pressure signal output device for controlling a second hydraulic apparatus abuts against the first electric oil pressure signal output device is removably provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Mototani, Shuuji Hori
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Patent number: 6789639Abstract: To provide a carrier vehicle capable of restraining an increase in cost of a power train, the carrier vehicle is constructed by front axles provided respectively steerably on left and right sides of a front portion of the vehicle and mounted with wheels, a first engine provided at the front portion of the vehicle, a first drive axle provided at a middle portion of the vehicle and mounted with wheels at both left and right ends thereof, a first transmission, a second drive axle provided at a rear portion of the vehicle and mounted with wheels at both left and right ends thereof, a second engine provided at the rear portion of the vehicle and on an upper side of the second drive axle, and a second transmission provided to connect to a front side of the second engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kyouji Uranaka, Satoshi Ogawa, Koichi Okamoto, Takao Nagai
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Patent number: 6786772Abstract: A modulated connector includes an input module, a transfer module and an applied terminal module. The input module has at least one resilient leg set adapted to connect to other electrical elements. The transfer module is connected to the input module via a circuit board and has a substantially U-shaped pin seat with two sets of pins to correspond to the side holes of the circuit board. The applied terminal module is connected to the transfer circuit board and has two side circuit boards respectively and electrically connected to the transfer module and a base electrically connected to the side circuit boards and provided with multiple contacting pins extending through the base for connection with another electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Lankom Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lu-Ta Liu
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Patent number: 6788212Abstract: A device capable of reducing an erroneous operation with a simple configuration in which, when two or more conductors M1, M2, M3 (three of them in FIG. 1) are attracted by three or more magnets 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d (four of them in FIG. 1), the conductors M1, M2, M3 are electrically connected between the respective magnets to bring a series circuit 3 into conduction that causes an electric current Is to flow, whereby an electric signal (voltage) Vs(=V) indicating the detection of the conductors M1, M2, M3 is output.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiharu Sato
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Patent number: 6788196Abstract: A controller switches a display screen between a monitor display (11) and a trouble display (22), as shown in FIG. 3. The controller can control the display screen as follows. If a pause button (22f) on the trouble display (22) is operated, the display screen can be fixed to the trouble display (22) for a prescribed time or until a restart or release button on the trouble display (22) is operated. The monitor display (11) and the trouble display (22) can be cyclically displayed. During cyclical display, a jump button (22g) on the trouble display (22) can be operate, and the display screen of the display device will return to the monitor display (11) from the trouble display (22) and the monitor display (11) can be displayed for a prescribed time (for instance, 5 minutes). Further, a cancel button (22e) on the trouble display (22) can be operated, so that the trouble display can be kept or returned to the monitor display (11).Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Ueda
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Patent number: 6783352Abstract: A wax liquid temperature control device of a wax injector is disclosed. In this device, a coal oil heat exchanger controls the temperature of the coal oil in a predetermined range. Then, the coal oil is transferred to a wax liquid temperature control cylinder to control the temperature of the wax liquid so that the wax liquid is retained in a proper temperature for being injected to a mold. Therefore, the wax liquid temperature control device of a wax injector may cool the wax liquid in the mold rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2001Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Inventor: Yu-Sheng Shiau
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Patent number: 6783728Abstract: Disclosed is a free-cutting steel for machine structural use which always exhibits desired machinability, particularly, machinability by cutting with cemented carbide tools. This free-cutting steel is produced by preparing a molten alloy of the composition consisting essentially of, by weight %, C: 0.05-0.8%, Si: 0.01-2.5%, Mn: 0.1-3.5% and O: 0.0005-0.01%, the balance being Fe and inevitable, and adjusting the addition amounts of Al and Ca in such a manner as to satisfy the above ranges, S: 0.01-0.2%, Al: 0.001-0.020% and Ca: 0.0005-0.02%, and the conditions of [S]/[O]: 8-40 [Ca]×[S]: 1×10−5−1×10−3 [Ca]/[S]: 0.01-20 and [Al]: 0.001-0.020% to obtain a steel characterized in that the area in microscopic field occupied by the sulfide inclusions containing Ca of 1.0% or more neighboring to oxide inclusions containing CaO of 8-62% is 2.0×10−4 mm2 or more per 3.5 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kano, Yutaka Kurebayashi
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Patent number: 6778893Abstract: Abnormality can be judged accurately by considering information other than a sensor-detected value. Determination of an abnormality degree, namely an urgency degree, is enabled, and an abnormality can be processed accurately according to the determined result. Only information really useful is given to the side of an administrator, and the communications cost is suppressed. Server unit 11 of manufacturer 10 judges the abnormality degree of a construction machine on the basis of a combination of all or two of first to third construction machine information D1, D2, D3 collected. The server unit 11 of the manufacturer 10 ranks the abnormality degree of the construction machine in respective levels of Rank 1 (Normal), Rank 2 (Warning), Rank 3 (Abnormal) and Rank 4 (Emergency) on the basis of the number of occurred times of error codes collected for the unit time.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2001Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Taku Murakami, Megumi Murase, Tadashi Taninaga
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Patent number: 6777820Abstract: To provide a semiconductor wafer having dot marks produced by irradiating laser beam capable of selecting a marking region capable of reading and writing marks in a state in which the marks hardly vanish and the semiconductor wafer is contained in a wafer cassette, inscribing information of an identification number or electric properties in the region and grasping past history by a unit of the wafer in processing steps or semiconductor fabrication steps thereafter, a very small dot mark is formed by irradiating laser having a diameter of 1 through 13 &mgr;m on an inner wall face of a notch (1) formed on an outer peripheral face of a semiconductor wafer (W), particularly on an inclined face of its peripheral edge.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Electronic Metals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teiichirou Chiba, Etsurou Satou, Jun Tajika
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Patent number: 6773661Abstract: Disclosed is a free-cutting steel containing Ti- and/or Zr-carbosulfide as inclusion and having good machinability both in turning and drilling. The free-cutting steel consists essentially of, in mass %, C: 0.05-0.80%, Si: 0.01-2.5%, Mn: 0.1-3.5%, Ti+0.52Zr: 0.03-1.2%, S:0.015-0.6% and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, and is characterized in that the contents of Ti, Zr and S meet the condition of (Ti+0.52Zr)/S<2. The free-cutting steel may contain, in addition to the above basic alloy composition, Ca: 0.0005-0.02% and/or Mg: 0.0003-0.02%. The latter steel exhibits much more improved machinability.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Hayaishi, Yutaka Kurebayashi
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Patent number: 6764645Abstract: Disclosed is a steel for machine structural use having good machinability and chip-breakability as well as a method of producing the steel. The steel consists essentially of, by wt. %, C: 0.05-0.8%, Si: 0.01-2.0%, Mn: 0.1-3.5%, S: 0.01-0.2%, Al: 0.001-0.020%, Ca: 0.0005-0.02%, O: 0.0005-0.01% and N: 0.001-0.04%, and further, one or both of Ti: 0.002-0.010% and Zr: 0.002-0.025%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. At production of the steel controlled deoxidization is conducted by operation meeting certain conditions so that at least a certain amount of “duplex inclusion” having a specific chemical composition may be formed, and Ti and/or Zr is added to precipitate finely dispersed MnS inclusion particles with nuclei of Ti-oxide and/or Zr-oxide. The finely dispersed MnS inclusions must share a determined part of the total sulfide inclusions.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Diado Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Hayaishi, Takashi Kano, Kazuhisa Ishida, Yutaka Kurebayashi, Makoto Hobo
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Patent number: 6758918Abstract: Disclosed is an isotropic SmFeN powdery magnet material for producing resin-bonded magnets. The magnet powder is prepared by melt-spinning of a molten alloy and nitriding the alloy powder thus obtained to form a magnet alloy having an alloy composition of one of the formulae, by atomic %: SmxFe100-x-vNv, SmxFe100-x-y-vM1yNv and SmxFe100-x-z-vM2zNv wherein M1 is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Hf and Zr; and M2 is at least one member selected from the group consisting of Si, Nb, Ti, Ga, Al, Ta and C; 7≦x≦12, 0.1≦y≦1.5, 0.1≦z≦1.0 and 0.5≦v≦20; the crystal structure is TbCu7 type; and the thickness of the flakes is 10-40 &mgr;m.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Diado Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiko Iriyama, Ryo Omatsuzawa, Takayuki Nishio
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Patent number: 6751535Abstract: A travel controlling apparatus of an unmanned vehicle provided with a GPS receiver (13) receiving a GPS signal so as to position a position of a vehicle, an autonomous navigation computing device (14) positioning a position and an azimuth of the vehicle on the basis of a traveling direction and distance of the vehicle, a position measuring portion (11) calculating a present position and azimuth, and a travel controlling portion (17) controlling the vehicle travel. The travel controlling apparatus is provided with a roadside zone distance measuring device (15) for measuring a distance from the vehicle to a roadside zone (5) provided in a side of the traveling path (4), and the present position and azimuth is determined on the basis of the roadside zone distance measured by the roadside zone distance measuring device (15).Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Masaki Mori
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Patent number: 6742457Abstract: A transfer press having a plurality of slides, and comprising slide drives being drive sources provided every slide, and a control device for controlling the slide drives to synchronously drive and/or singly drive the slides individually.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko Shiroza
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Patent number: 6727781Abstract: Disclosed is a high frequency (HF) amplifier to be used at a high frequency, typically in the range of 9 GHz to 12 GHz, in which coupling of input side and output side is prevented to achieve high gain without influence on the fidelity of amplification. The HF amplifier comprises a metal case consisting of a box type container and a lid, an amplifying element installed on a dielectric, insulating board at the bottom of the case, and leads connected to the input circuit and the output circuit of the amplifying element and extending outside through both the end walls of the case. The HF amplifier is characterized by disposition of an electromagnetic wave-absorbing sheet or sheets inside of at least one of both the side walls, the ceiling, and both the end walls so as to prevent electromagnetic coupling.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Daido Steel Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko Saito
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Patent number: 6718763Abstract: A balance of force acting on a pool 21 of a control valve 20 is expressed by (P1−P3)·A=F+f When it is assumed that a pressure difference P1−P2 before and after a throttle 42 is &Dgr;P12 to modify the above expression, an expression &Dgr;P12·A+(P2−P3)·A=f+F is obtained. According to the present invention, the force &Dgr;P12·A corresponding to the pressure difference &Dgr;P12 before and after the second throttle 42 of the first term of the left-hand side is applied to the control valve 20 as a force capable of canceling the flow force f at the first term of the right-hand side.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Maruta, Nobumi Yoshida
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Patent number: 6719075Abstract: The invention is directed to providing a frame structure of a crawler type construction machine vehicle facilitating a degree of freedom of reforming in accordance with a variation of vehicle kind. The frame structure is capable of setting a vehicle body gravitational center position to an optimum portion by use of an upper vehicle frame at an arbitrary position that is capable of strengthening total rigidity by an integrated structure. The frame structure has left and right track frames, and front and rear cross beams for coupling the left and right track frames in a shape of a lattice. A vehicle body frame is disposed between inner sides of the left and right track frames and coupled thereto in the shape of a lattice above the front and rear cross beams and the left and right track frames. The front and rear cross beams and the vehicle body frames are integrally constituted.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Shinobu Kamikawa
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Patent number: D489424Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: O-Ta Precision Casting Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kung-Wen Lee
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Patent number: D493081Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Inventor: Kun-Chen Chen
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Patent number: D493378Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2003Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Shinko Denshi Co., Ltd.Inventor: Misao Nomura