Patents Represented by Attorney William L. Androlia

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  • Tail wire cutting method and bonding apparatus
    Patent number: 7658314
    Abstract: A tail wire cutting method and bonding apparatus executing the same, in which a capillary raised to a predetermined height and a clamper disposed above the capillary and gripping a wire are caused to make reciprocating oscillation movement on, for instance, a circular arc that has an apex at the above-described predetermined height, thus forming (minute) cracks in a portion between the tail wire and a bonding end of a bonding point, and then cutting of a tail wire sticking out of the tip end of the capillary is executed by way of raising the capillary and clamper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Shinsuke Tei, Noriko Mori
  • Ball forming device in a bonding apparatus and ball forming method
    Patent number: 7658313
    Abstract: A ball forming device and method used in a bonding apparatus, including a bonding arm, a capillary attached to the bonding arm, an electronic flame off prove for forming a ball at the tip of a wire passing through the capillary, and a gas atmosphere forming unit for bringing the vicinity of the tip end of the wire into a gas atmosphere. The gas atmosphere forming unit is made of an inner wall element and an outer wall element with a hollow space section in between. The bonding arm side of the inner wall element has an inside open space which is wider than the portion of the bonding arm where the capillary is attached, and gas ejection ports are formed in the inner wall element. A gas supply pipe is connected to the outer wall element to supply, for instance, a reducing gas into the hollow space section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Shinichi Nishiura, Fumio Miyano
  • Optical element and optical element holder
    Patent number: 7660055
    Abstract: An optical element including a first groove extending from first end of the outer peripheral face in an optical axis direction towards second end, and a second groove connected to the first groove and extending from second end of the outer peripheral face in the optical axis direction towards first end; and a position-adjusting concave part which is between the first and second grooves and adjusts positions by adjusting member in the optical axis direction, a revolving direction about the optical axis, a width direction of first and second grooves, which is orthogonal to the optical axis, and in a synthesized direction that is a combination of at least two of those directions, wherein the optical element is molded by using only a first molding die for molding a part on the first groove side and a second molding die for molding a part on the second groove side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Hisayoshi Hayashi
  • Vehicular lamp
    Patent number: 7654714
    Abstract: A vehicular lamp with a light source unit that includes a main reflector for reflecting light irradiated from a first light source, a projection lens that condenses and radiates light reflected by the main reflector, and a shade that blocks a part of the light reflected by the main reflector, wherein the light source unit further includes a second light source, which is disposed on the opposite side from the projection lens provided on the shade, and the shade is formed with a light transmission portion which is an opening that allows the light irradiated from the second light source to pass therethrough to the projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Mochizuki, Masafumi Ohishi
  • Coffee automat having a vertically adjustable and lockable outflow unit
    Patent number: 7654192
    Abstract: In a coffee automat, a vertically adjustable and lockable outflow unit (3), which comprises at least one coffee outflow tube (6) in fluid-conductive connection with a coffee brewing device is continuously height-adjustable relative to a cup base and can be locked by a locking means. In order to easily and smoothly adjust, in a coffee automat rationally to be manufactured, the outflow unit (3) with the locking means released, the outflow unit (3) is supported on housing (1) by means of a longitudinal ball bearing (12) as a first bearing element, which embraces a vertical longitudinal ball bearing shaft (13) as a second bearing element. One of the two bearing elements is connected with outflow unit (3) and the other of the two bearing elements is in solid connection with a housing (1) of the coffee automat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Eugster/Frismag AG
    Inventor: Max Oehninger
  • Bonding apparatus, ball forming device in said bonding apparatus, and ball forming method using said bonding apparatus
    Patent number: 7644852
    Abstract: A ball forming device and method used in a bonding apparatus, including a bonding arm, a capillary attached to the bonding arm, an electronic flame off probe for forming a ball at the tip of a wire passing through the capillary, and a gas atmosphere forming unit for bringing the vicinity of the tip end of the wire into a gas atmosphere. The gas atmosphere forming unit is made of an inner wall element and an outer wall element with a hollow space section in between. The bonding arm side of the inner wall element has an inside open space which is wider than the portion of the bonding arm where the capillary is attached, and gas ejection ports are formed in the inner wall element. A gas supply pipe is connected to the outer wall element to supply, for instance, a reducing gas into the hollow space section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Shinichi Nishiura, Fumio Miyano, Masayuki Horino
  • Injection-molded resin bevel gear
    Patent number: 7644640
    Abstract: A rim-shaped section of a teeth section with the same thickness among a bottomland and the same thickness as that of a web. An outward-radial-direction end of the web is connected to an inner end side of the rim-shaped section. In the rim-shaped section, a section from a teeth section connecting section of the web to an outer end of the ring-shaped rim-shaped section is connected to an outer circumferential surface of the boss by a plurality of first radial direction ribs. In the rim-shaped section, a section from the teeth section connecting section of the web to a tooth-width-direction center section is connected to an outward-radial-direction end of second radial direction ribs. The first and the second radial direction ribs are formed thinner than the web and the ring-shaped rim-shaped section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Suzuki
  • Marine safety ladder
    Patent number: 7644677
    Abstract: To provide a marine safety ladder that makes rescue possible within a short time, without posing any risk of contact with a pleasure boat or the like, without causing any additional concern in the operation of boats during docking and departure, without the risk of injury to a person who has fallen, etc., and without the risk of falling when the ladder is being stowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Marine Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukinari Nakano
  • Imaging lens
    Patent number: 7636206
    Abstract: An imaging lens including, in order from an object side to an image surface side on an optical axis, a first lens that is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the object side, a diaphragm, a second lens that is a meniscus lens having a positive power whose convex surface faces the image surface side, and a third lens that is a biconcave lens having a negative power, wherein conditions expressed by 0.023?d4/fl?0.11 and 0.068<f1/f2?0.8 (where, d4: distance between the second lens and the third lens on the optical axis, f1: 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: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: ENPLAS Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Saito
  • Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
    Patent number: 7635333
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus comprises a cine-memory for temporarily storing a frame line obtained by transmitting and receiving ultrasound. In a stress echo test, the storage region of the cine-memory is divided into the same number of segments as the number of capturing processes (i.e. the number of scenes). Each segment is used as a ring-buffer, and one or a plurality of frame blocks (one or a plurality of moving images) are stored in the corresponding segment in each capturing process. Prior to execution of a plurality of capturing processes, the number of heart beats indicative of the data amount which can be stored in each segment is obtained and the information is then provided to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Aloka Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Watanabe, Akifumi Ohtake, Takaya Uno
  • Cake-shaped decorative accessory made of a towel in a cup
    Patent number: 7628274
    Abstract: A cake-shaped decorative accessory made of a towel in a cylindrically shaped cup. The towel is inserted in a cylindrical shaped cup with the top portion of the towel protruding from the opening of the cup. The opening of the cup has a larger diameter than the bottom, and the protruding portion of the towel is formed into a dome shape. The towel is of a square shape with the four corners folded back in the same direction so that the four corners are at the center of the towel to form a double layer, the double layered towel is further folded back so that the four corners are at the center of the towel to form four layers in a square shape, a center portion of the four layered towel is expanded into a dome shape which upwardly protrudes out of the opening of the cylindrically shaped cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Prairie Dog Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Matsuoka, Tadayoshi Iwaki
  • Inner cutter for a reciprocating type electric shaver
    Patent number: 7621050
    Abstract: An inner cutter of a reciprocating electric shaver having a plurality of arched shaped cutter blades that are integrally formed on a side edge part of the inner cutter and, while making reciprocating motion, makes sliding contact with an inside surface of an arch shaped outer cutter. The end portions of two adjacent cutter blades are joined together and this joined portion is connected to the side edge part via a connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Izumi Products Company
    Inventors: Masaki Okabe, Tetsuhiko Shimizu, Yoshiyuki Mimura
  • Wire bonding method
    Patent number: 7621436
    Abstract: A wire bonding method including the steps of: descending a capillary 5 from above an external lead 1 to press a wire 10 to such an extent that the wire is not completely connected to the external lead 1, thus forming a thin part 16 in the wire; next ascending the capillary 5 and the thin part 16 to substantially the same height as a first bonding point A, then moving the capillary 5 in a direction away from the first bonding point A, thus making a linear wire portion 18 and then cutting the wire at the thin part 16; then connecting the end 19 (thin part) of the linear wire portion 18 and the wire tip end 20 at the lower end of the capillary 5 are connected to the external lead 1; and then separating the wire tip end 20 from the external lead 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Tatsunari Mii, Toshihiko Toyama, Hiroaki Yoshino
  • Semiconductor device
    Patent number: 7617966
    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: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa
    Inventors: Tatsunari Mii, Shinichi Akiyama
  • Gear shift knob for automobiles
    Patent number: D605569
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Car Mate Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Terunaga Yoshida
  • Pair of eyeglasses
    Patent number: D605686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuto Yasuhara
  • Casing for illuminating device
    Patent number: D606441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Patlite Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Miyatake
  • Air vent
    Patent number: D607555
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Seiho International, Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke Nishizawa
  • Sunglasses
    Patent number: D609266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuto Yasuhara, Shinichi Hadehara
  • Eyeglasses
    Patent number: D609735
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuto Yasuhara