Patents Represented by Law Firm Wolder & Gross
  • Patent number: 4567982
    Abstract: A mailer construction includes a receptacle bound or otherwise affixed to a single or multi-page envelope or printing. The receptacle forms either the cover or outer surfaces of the mailer, or may be retained within the envelope or pages. The receptacle is removable from the remainder of the assembly, and can be opened and used after the remainder of the assembly is discarded. The receptacle may have appropriate printed indicia upon its sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Floating Sky, Inc.
    Inventor: Guy A. Fery
  • Patent number: 4563462
    Abstract: A substance designated by us as AX-2 and represented by the formula: ##STR1## This substance is produced by culturing a microorganism of the genus Streptomyces and capable of producing AX-2 in a medium to accumulate AX-2 in the cultured broth and isolating AX-2 therefrom.An anti-tumor composition comprising an effective amount of AX-2 in association with a physiologically acceptable carrier or excipient, which is active against Sarcoma 180.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1986
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Kabushiki
    Inventors: Shinzo Ishii, Shigeo Katsumata, Yuko Arai, Tadashi Ashizawa, Makoto Morimoto, Kunikatsu Shirahata, Yutaka Saito, Motomichi Kono
  • Patent number: 4561269
    Abstract: A lock includes a running plate formed integrally with a locking bar and provided with a fence adapted to cooperate with a plurality of tumblers so as to alternatively block and allow retraction of the locking bar, and this mechanism is mounted together with the cooperating components within a lock housing. The tumblers allow retraction of the locking bar when moved by a prescribed key to a unlocking position and this prescribed key, which can move the tumblers to the unlocking position, can be exchanged with another prescribed key by displacing the rotational axes of the tumblers. The rotational axes of the tumblers are rotatably released or fixed by a conversion shaft extending through an opening formed in the tumblers and rotatably supported in the lock housing. The conversion shaft is provided with a stop piece and a locking piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kumahira Seisakusho
    Inventor: Minoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4561746
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a focus detection device which is provided with first to third reference signal generators for generating reference signals which are compared with a focus condition signal varying with the amount and direction of the adjustment required for the objective lens to focus on a target object, and also, to an automatic focusing device for a camera, which is equipped with an objective lens operating system for the focusing, and a motor for controlling the objective lens operating system in response to a signal from a focus condition determining means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motonobu Matsuda, Masatoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 4560261
    Abstract: A camera for use with a disk film having a take lens window provided in the front side of a parallelepipedal housing closer to one lateral side thereof and a mirror device disposed at the center of the front side adjacent the window for observing the object. The mirror device is variable in its inclination to correct the parallax due to a variation in the distance of the object and has framing marks for indicating the field of view of the lens which differs with the object distance. The mirror device further has a coverage recognition sign which is observable only from a predetermined position within the coverage where an image of the object can be accurately observed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Akira Yoshizaki, Yasuo Masaki
  • Patent number: 4556554
    Abstract: A cosmetic composition is provided for the removal ofsebum exudate from the skin. The composition comprises immobilzed enzymes in cosmetically acceptable vehicles for topical application. The immobilized enzymes are lipolytic lipases, proteolytic proteases and enzymes for the breakdown of sugar oligomers from glucoproteins in the skin exudates. The enzymes may be present individually or in any desired combination. The enzymes are immobilized in known manners by chemical and or physical means and are released from immobilization upon application to the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques Corp.
    Inventor: Luis C. Calvo
  • Patent number: 4551524
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds that are complexes of diaminocyclohexane platinum glucuronic acid halide and the use of these compounds as anti-tumor agents for lower animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Yoshinori Kidani
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kidani, Masahide Noji
  • Patent number: 4549799
    Abstract: A focus adjusting mechanism for a camera includes a fixed lens and an auxiliary lens carried by a supporting member. The supporting member is movable between an advanced position for holding the auxiliary lens in the optical path of said fixed lens and a retracted position for holding the auxiliary lens out of the optical path of the fixed lens. The supporting member is biased from its retracted to advanced position but the movement thereof toward the advanced position is normally restrained by a piezoelectric bender element provided within the locus of said supporting member. The piezoelectric bender element is transformed and moved out of the locus of the supporting member for releasing the restraint when a proper voltage is applied to the electric bender element. A power supply circuit is provided for generating the proper voltage to be applied to the piezoelectric bender element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuhiko Inagaki
  • Patent number: 4549800
    Abstract: A compact 35 mm, automatic focusing camera of the lens shutter type includes a camera body having a camera obscura with a fast opening cartridge receiving and spool accommodating chambers on respective opposite sides of and extending above the camera obscura and a range finder located in the camera body spaced above the top of the camera obscura to delineate with the upper inside walls of the chambers and the top of the camera obscura a housing space. An objective lens registers with the camera obscura front opening and includes an axially movable focusing lens element. Disposed in the housing space is a flat lens control mechanism for shifting the focusing lens element, a first signal being produced in accordance with the focusing lens position, a second signal being generated by the range finder in accordance with the indicated range and a control signal responsive to the first and second signals for braking the control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keisuke Maeda
  • Patent number: 4548488
    Abstract: An automatic focusing system in a lens exchangeable camera is adapted to use a conversion lens assembly, in which a drive transmission mechanism is provided between an intermediate driven member capable of being coupled with a driving output member of a camera body and an intermediate driving member capable of being coupled with a driven member of an exchangeable lens assembly, for transmitting movement of the intermediate driven member to the intermediate driving member with a predetermined transmission coefficient .mu.c.In use, the conversion lens assembly is interposed between the camera body and the exchangeable lens assembly. A control circuit of the camera body controls the rotation of a driving motor based on a focus condition signal obtained by focus condition detection and a data signal input from the exchangeable lens assembly for determining the amount and direction of the movement of the driving output member driven by the driving motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Honda, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 4540093
    Abstract: A display hook for the presentation of items upon a vertical supporting surface consists of a product support member and an overlying front channel support arm. The front channel member is adapted to receive consumer-oriented information upon its front face and store personnel-related information upon its rear face. The front channel member is pivoted upon the support arm such that the normal position of the channel allows viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Inventors: Milton J. Merl, Silvio J. Di Marchi
  • Patent number: 4536071
    Abstract: A mount arrangement for a photographic camera which is capable of automatic diaphragm control and automatic focusing includes electrical contacts for transmission of electrical signals between a camera body and an interchangeable lens unit, and mechanical transmission members for the automatic diaphragm control and the automatic focusing and positioning member and recess on and at inner periphery of mount members of the camera body and the lens unit so as not to interfere with each other during the start and the course of the mounting of the lens unit onto the camera body through a bayonet mount device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Inventors: Yukio Maekawa, Tsuneyo Metabi, Masatake Niwa
  • Patent number: 4531311
    Abstract: In a data information display device for use with products displayed in a shelf environment. The unit includes a bracket which is designed to mount either adhesively to the front edge of a shelf or by adhesive or other gripping means to a typical ticket rail mounted on the front edge of a shelf. Depending from the bracket is a support member which rotatably carries a data-carrying member having two surfaces, the front surface carrying information for a consumer of the goods and the rear surface carrying information used by store personnel for reorder purposes. The unit normally hangs in a position with the consumer information visible. By simple rotation of the member of the data-carrying member the store reorder information becomes visible and, when utilized, the supporting force is removed and the data-carrying member resumes its normal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Marlboro Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Howard, Sydney Edson, Milton J. Merl, Silvio J. Di Marchi
  • Patent number: 4530580
    Abstract: A telescopic extender for supporting a compact camera includes a head member to be attached to the camera, a grip to be held and a telescopic rod member connecting the head member to the grip. A screw member is supported by the head member in a manner that the screw member is rotatable about the axis perpendicular to an extending and collapsing direction of the telescopic rod. The grip can accomodate therein the telescopic rod when the telescopic rod is completely collapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueda, Yujiro Mima
  • Patent number: 4530168
    Abstract: A combination boot carrying and drying device, particularly for use with ski boots. A strap carries an adjustably positioned toe clip which detachably and firmly engages the front sole of a ski boot. The ends of the strap are secured to heel clips, which in addition to detachably engaging the heels of the boots, detachably grips a support member approximate a heat source. The strap is of sufficient length to allow the boots to be carried by the strap when the heel and toe clips are in position, and at the same time the boots may be positioned with the top facing downward so that the heat source may dry the interior of the boot when the heel clip grips the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Inventor: Joseph E. Petre
  • Patent number: 4524315
    Abstract: In a roll film carrier for rewinding the roll film wound on a supply reel onto a take-up reel there are provided a signal generating means which detects the rotation of the supply reel shaft and outputs a corresponding signal, a means for generating a pulse synchronously with the passage of the roll film and a means for controlling the driving of the roll film through comparison of the number of pulses generated in the signal generating period of the signal generating means with a predetermined number and it is so arranged that the driving of the roll film is stopped when the number of generated pulses has agreed with the predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Nakatani, Seiichi Yamagishi, Kenjiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 4513965
    Abstract: A baseball bat instruction accessory unit to teach the proper technique for hitting a baseball. The unit is held by an instructor and includes a handle or gripping portion, a connecting portion and an impact portion, which is essentially perpendicular to the gripping portion. The unit is made of still sheathing material, such as plastic, with the impact portion highlighted, as by white or brightly surface treatment. The sheathing material allows the instructor to "feel" the quality of the swing by the pupil. Alternatively, the hollow core of the sheathing material may contain wooden or metal dowels to withstand high impact forces and provide more stiff resiliency. The dowel may be made in two parts, spaced from each other to prevent the full effect of the impact forces being felt by one holding the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Inventor: Kurt Aschermann
  • Patent number: 4512646
    Abstract: A camera acoustic indicating device for indicating, by sound, attainment of an in-focus condition of a camera objective lens and warning possibility of a blur occuring exposure time due to low brightness of an object to be photographed. The sound for the in-focus indication is intermittently generated at a frequency higher than that at which the sound for the blur warning is intermittently generated. When the attainment of an in-focus condition is detected while the blur warning is being made, the warning is interrupted for a given time period during which the attainment of the in-focus condition is indicated for a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mashio Kitaura, Norio Ishikawa, Toshihiko Ishimura
  • Patent number: D279788
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Fumitaka Io
  • Patent number: D280402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Inventor: Paul R. Brown