Patents Represented by Attorney William L. Androlia

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  • Procedure and device for the production of a plasma
    Patent number: 7476301
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a procedure for the production of a plasma that is at least co-produced in the vacuum chamber (1a) of a vacuum recipient (1) of a device suitable for plasma processing with at least one induction coil (2) carrying an alternating current, where the gas used to produce the plasma is fed into the vacuum chamber (1a) through at least one inlet (3) and the vacuum chamber (1a) is subject to the pumping action of at least one pump arrangement (4), and where a possibly pulsed direct current is also applied to the induction coil (2) in order to influence the plasma density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Oc Oerlikon Balzers AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Weichart, Dominik Wimo Amman, Siegfried Krassnitzer
  • Semiconductor device and a wire bonding method
    Patent number: 7458498
    Abstract: A wire bonding method that connects a first bonding point and a second bonding point by a wire, the method including a step that press-bonds a ball formed on a tip end of a wire to a first bonding point, thus forming a press-bonded ball; a step that slightly raises a capillary, moves the capillary toward a second bonding point and then lowers the capillary by an amount that is smaller than an amount in which the capillary was raised, and a step that raises the capillary to allow the wire to be paid out of the capillary and moves the capillary toward a second bonding point, thus connecting the wire to the second bonding point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Tatsunari Mii, Shinichi Akiyama
  • Imaging lens
    Patent number: 7457054
    Abstract: An imaging lens including, in order from an object side towards an image surface side, a diaphragm, a first lens which is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the object side, and a second lens which is a lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the image surface side, wherein conditions expressed by each of following expressions (1)-(6) are to be satisfied; 1.25?L/fl?0.8, 0.55?f1/f2>0, 1.5?f1/fl?0.9, 1?d2/d1?0.2, 0.35?d1/fl?0.1, and 0.27?d3/fl?0.1 (where, L: entire length of the imaging lens, fl: focal distance of the entire imaging lens, f1: focal distance of the first lens, f2: focal distance of the second lens, d1: center thickness of the first lens, d2: space between the first lens and the second lens on the optical axis, and d3: center thickness of the second lens).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Saito
  • Process for manufacturing a sliding contact piece for medium to high current densities
    Patent number: 7449144
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a sliding contact piece for medium to high current densities including a step of warm premixing of graphite and plastic binder, a step of cold mixing of the resulting premixture with copper, a step of pressing of the resulting main mixture into the sliding contact piece, and finally a step of sintering of it; and so as to improve the operating characteristics of the sliding contact piece, which is free of any environmentally harmful additives, a metal such as zinc, tin, bismuth or an alloy of such metals is added during the premixing of the graphite and plastic binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Deutsche Carbone AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Latz, Jürgen Spangenberg, Arwed Uecker
  • Imaging lens and imaging device including the imaging lens
    Patent number: 7450323
    Abstract: It is to provide an imaging lens and an imaging device including the imaging lens that can secure telecentricity and achieve excellent resolution through sufficient correction of various aberrations, while being compact and light. The imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image surface side, a first lens 2 that is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the object side, a diaphragm 3, a second lens 4 that is a meniscus lens having a negative power whose convex surface faces the image surface side, and a third lens 5 that is a meniscus lens having a negative power whose convex surface faces the object side, wherein conditions expressed by ?130?f2/fl??6 and 0.8?f1/fl?1 (where, fl: focal distance of the entire lens system, f1: focal distance of the first lens, and f2: focal distance of the second lens) are to be satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masato Nakamura
  • Braiding yarn made of expanded graphite, and gland packing
    Patent number: 7448631
    Abstract: In a braiding yarn made of expanded graphite 1, a reinforcing wire member 3 made of a stainless steel wire which is easily plastically deformed, and having a diameter of 0.05 to 0.2 mm is spirally wound around the outer periphery of a twisted expanded graphite base member 2 having a width of 3 mm and a thickness of 0.38 mm, at a narrow pitch P of 0.5 to 5 mm without slack. Alternatively, the reinforcing wire member is wound so as to be embedded in the inner side of and along an edge 4 of an expanded graphite tape which is spirally exposed from the outer surface of the expanded graphite base member 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Yamashita, Takahisa Ueda, Masaru Fujiwara, Akio Ohtani
  • Cleaning device for a vehicular lamp
    Patent number: 7448554
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a vehicular lamp including a piston 3, which has a spray nozzle 5 and a nozzle cover 7 covering the spray nozzle, and a cylinder 2, which drives the piston into and out of an opening 91 formed in a vehicle body 9. The nozzle cover has a cylindrical shaft receiving portion 72 extending from the rear surface thereof and an engagement hole 73a provided at a position away from the shaft receiving portion. The distal end of the piston has an engagement shaft portion 82, which projects forward and fits with the shaft receiving portion of the nozzle cover, and an engagement tab 83, which engages with the engagement hole of the nozzle cover. The engagement shaft portion fits with the shaft receiving portion and the engagement tab engages with the engagement hole by moving the nozzle cover toward the distal end of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Sakai, Masaaki Sato
  • Filtration unit, installation method for a filtration unit and filtration apparatus
    Patent number: 7449117
    Abstract: A filtration unit that includes a casing that has a closed bottom and is immersed in a water storage tank (or water storage pond) into which raw water is introduced, the casing being composed of a introduction port which introduces the raw water in the water storage tank into the casing, an active carbon supply device which adds active carbon to the introduced raw water, an agitator which agitates the raw water inside the casing to which active carbon has been added, a filtration module which filters the raw water, a back flow preventing device which prevents the raw water inside the casing from flowing back into the introduction port and being discharged into the water storage tank, and a discharging device which discharges the raw water from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Tsukishima Kikai Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Nakayama
  • Gas seal-in method for a bag with a gas filling compartment and packaging method for a bag with a gas filling compartment
    Patent number: 7444795
    Abstract: A method for sealing-in a gas in a gas filling compartment 5 of a bag having a cut-in 6 formed near the upper edge of the gas filling compartment. In the method, two edges of the bag with the contents inserted therein are gripped by grippers and suspended, the blow-in port of a gas (air) blow-in nozzle is brought to contact the cut-in, the back surface side of the bag is supported by a backing member, gas (air) is blown into the gas filling compartment, and the position below the cut-in is held from both sides of the bag by a gas cut-off grippers while the gas blow-in continues, so that the gas inside the gas filling compartment is not allowed to escape from the cut-in, and then the entire bag mouth, including the cut-in, is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Yasuhira
  • Ice discharging structure of ice making mechanism
    Patent number: 7444828
    Abstract: An ice discharging structure of an ice making mechanism for discharging an ice block from the ice making mechanism reliably regardless of the weight of the ice block. An ice making mechanism of an ice making machine comprises an ice making section case in which an opening closed by a separator openably and closably is provided. The ice making section case comprises an ice chute inclined downward to the opening of the ice making section case, provided between an ice making section 16 and a sprinkler, for leading an ice block fallen from an ice making chamber to the opening. On an end face of the ice chute, a first rib is horizontally provided in a width direction of the end face, and a top thereof is in line contact with an inner face of the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shizuma Kadowaki, Kunihiko Ishitomi, Masaaki Kawasumi, Hiroki Imaoka
  • Lens component, indicator unit for signal indicating light, and signal indicating light
    Patent number: 7445360
    Abstract: A lens component includes: a light incident portion (16) having an incident face (14) upon which light from a light source (6) is incident, the light source (6) being disposed at a light source position (15); and a plurality of plate-like light guiding portions (17, 32) disposed radially around an axis (S0) passing through the light source position (15) or a position in the vicinity thereof, and arranged to guide light incident from the incident face (14) of the light incident portion (16), in emission directions (F, F1-F3) at right angles to the axis (S0). Each of the plate-like light guiding portions (17, 32) is provided on an end face (27) thereof with a radial reflecting face (29, 29A, 29B) for internally reflecting, in the emission directions (F, F1-F3), the light incident from the incident face (14) of the light incident portion (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Patlite Corporation
    Inventor: Akito Ikeda
  • Automatic ice making machine
    Patent number: 7444829
    Abstract: The peel off between an ice making plate and an insulating layer or between the insulating layer and heating means is prevented so that an ice making operation can be performed efficiently. Also, a metal plate is insulated from the heating means reliably. An evaporation pipe 14 and electric heaters H1 to HN are provided in an ice making member 11. A coolant is circulatingly supplied through the evaporation pipe 14 so as to cool the ice making member 11 and ice making water is supplied to the ice making member 11 so as to form an ice block M during the ice making operation. During the deicing operation, heat is generated in the heaters H1 to HN by applying current so that the ice block M is removed from the ice making member 11 by melting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mori, Akihiko Hirano
  • Vehicular lamp
    Patent number: 7441933
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp 10 including an LED module 60 that is a light source and a power supply socket 70 for connecting the LED module to a power supply. The LED module is made of an LED substrate 61, an LED 62 mounted on the LED substrate, a pair of positive and negative current-conducting parts 63 connected to the LED and formed on both sides of the LED. The power supply socket includes a base body 71 made from an insulating material and a pair of positive and negative terminals 72 held in a pair of holding portions 73 of the base body. When the LED module is set in the power supply socket, the holding portions of power supply socket hold the side edge portions of the LED module, and the pair of positive and negative terminals come into contact with the current-conducting parts of the LED module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukamoto, Tsukasa Tokida
  • Piezoelectric-oscillator
    Patent number: 7439819
    Abstract: Deterioration in frequency stability with time in a conventional piezoelectric oscillator using an accumulation type MOS capacitance element is improved. A P-channel transistor type or an N-channel transistor type is used as a MOS capacitance element in a variable capacitance circuit used in a piezoelectric oscillator. A bias voltage is applied between P-type or N-type extraction electrodes formed in source and drain regions and an N-type extraction electrode provided in an N-well region or a P-type extraction electrode provided in a P-well region. Instability in the MOS capacitance element with time is thus eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Epson Toyocom Corporation, NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ohshima, Shigehisa Kurogo, Masayuki Ishikawa, Susumu Kurosawa, Yuki Fujimoto, Yasutaka Nakashiba
  • Molded member with foamed body
    Patent number: 7434828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a molded member with a foamed body, which is foamed on the top surface sides of a first member and a second member and is prevented from leaking from between abutment surfaces of those members toward the back side. A seal piece of a required width extending in an eaves form outward over the perimeter of the outer contour edge of an airbag door is provided at the outer contour edge. When the airbag door is laid out at a door mount portion, so formed as to surround an opening formed in a base material, the seal piece is set in close contact with the outer surface of the door mount portion in such a way as to surround the opening. This prevents the foamed body, foamed on the top surface side of the base material facing the airbag door, from leaking from a clearance, produced between abutment surface of the base material and the airbag door, toward the back side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Inoac Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Okamoto, Hiroshi Suzuki, Tomohiro Chiba
  • Optical element
    Patent number: 7428102
    Abstract: An optical element which includes an optical block having a cavity part formed on an optical path and an inclined face formed in an internal face of the cavity part at a prescribed inclining angle with respect to a traveling direction of light. Multilayer films of the same structure are formed at least on the internal face of the cavity part and on an interface between a light incident end and/or emission end of the optical block and outside. The multilayer film formed on the incline face in the internal face of the cavity part has at least a wavelength selecting function for light to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Niwayama, Eddie Azuma
  • Holographic information recording apparatus
    Patent number: 7428206
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to improve a recording capacity density by removing part of diffracted light and by making a recording region in relation to a recording medium in the efficient shape. An optical information recording apparatus in which holography is formed in an optical information recording medium by making information light reflected by a spatial modulator interfere with reference light, is provided with a diffracted light removal means which removes part of diffracted light of the reflected light, and whose aperture is in the shape of a square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Optware Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyoshi Horimai, Yoshio Aoki
  • Video recorder/player
    Patent number: D579887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Elmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yamane, Takeshi Yoshida, Tetsuro Kato
  • Image pickup apparatus
    Patent number: D580962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Elmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sukenari, Hiroshi Yamakose, Tetsuro Kato, Shinji Ono
  • Camera head for a video recorder
    Patent number: D583846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Elmo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Yamane, Takeshi Yoshida, Tetsuro Kato