Patents Represented by Attorney Yokoi & Co., U.S.A., Inc.

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  • Liquid crystal display apparatus and lighting unit
    Patent number: 7748885
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a lighting unit comprising: a reflector panel; a plurality of substantially U-shaped cold cathode tubes held parallel relative to the reflector panel; an inverter substrate; cold cathode tube holders for holding the cold cathode tubes parallel relative to the reflector panel in such a manner that terminals of the cold cathode tubes are arranged in a row along one side of the reflector panel; a substrate holder for holding the inverter substrate to be vertically relative to the reflector panel in such a manner that a lower side of the inverter substrate reaches a positions where the terminals are arranged in a row; a plurality of notches upwardly cut deep from the lower side of the inverter substrate so as to receive the terminals; and solders provided for making electrical connections between the terminals and electrical supply patterns formed in the notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Miyamoto
  • Plasma television packing structure and panel display device packing structure
    Patent number: 7690508
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a packing structure for a panel display device comprising a box having a base portion space that is created in a lower cushioning member on a side of a back of a main body and receives the base portion of a stand with a long side of the base portion oriented horizontally; a stand disposed in the base portion space with a shaft portion extended along a back of the main body; and the box accommodating the lower cushioning member, the main body, an upper cushioning member, and the stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Maruta
  • IC fixing structure
    Patent number: 7663885
    Abstract: The IC fixing component includes a locking case accommodating the IC in such a manner that a side of the IC out of a face-to-face contact with the heat dissipation plate is brought into a face-to-face contact with the locking case so as to be covered and a through hole and a rotation stop protrusion inserted into a rotation limiting hole. After the IC has been accommodated in the locking case, the screw member inserted through the through hole is screwed into a screw hole of the heat dissipation plate so that the side of the IC out of face-to-face contact with the locking case is pressed by the locking case thereby to be brought into a face-to-face contact with the heat dissipation plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ogawa, Takahito Yamanaka
  • Automobile interior structure and headliner interior material
    Patent number: 7661703
    Abstract: A cut that widens a through hole of an end portion of a headliner interior material breaks when an airbag is deployed, and is formed on an exterior-side of the end portion. The end portion of the headliner interior material is in close contact with a surrounding member provided around the end portion. In addition, an accessory is passed through the through hole and fixed to a body, while the end portion of the headliner interior material is held to the accessory around the through hole. When the airbag installed folded on the exterior side of the headliner interior material is deployed, the airbag deploys into a cabin from between the end portion and the surrounding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hayashi Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Kotaro Ono, Koichi Ikawa
  • Rubber foot mounting structure and projector
    Patent number: 7661831
    Abstract: The rubber foot mounting structure has a base 20b equipped with a boss hole 30 in the shape of substantially a cylinder and a rubber foot 40 that is formed on an outer side face of a body section 40d in the shape of substantially a column and is made capable of being press-fit to the boss hole 30 by means of flanges 40a1 to 40a4 formed on the outer side face of the body section 40d. Four flanges 40a1 to 40a4 formed on the outer side face of the rubber foot 40 contact the boss hole 30 and the rubber foot 40 gets inserted into the boss hole 30 while the four flanges 40a1 to 40a4 are being compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Tsuboi
  • Television tuner for control of directivity of antenna
    Patent number: 7663704
    Abstract: Disclosed is a television tuner for receiving television broadcast signals with an antenna, which is equipped with an auto-scan unit that causes a channel storing section, which stores a receiving channel at the time when the signal condition from a tuner section matches the predetermined signal condition, to automatically store the receiving channel, wherein the auto scan unit detects switches among the receiving channel sequentially in the tuner section to detect the signal condition, and, after signal condition is detected for every channel, performs a variable directivity control for the antenna, resulting in an increased auto-scan execution speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Onomatsu, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
  • Television and rib structure
    Patent number: 7658456
    Abstract: There is provided a rib structure formed at a predetermined position inside a cabinet and at positions around a display panel housed in a cabinet, the rib structure including a first rib portion that is substantially linear and one end of which is opposed to a side face of the display panel and a second rib portion that is substantially U-shaped and connected to an other end of the first rib portion at a nearly bottom position of the U-shape and two ends of the U-shape being connected to a wall face of the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Aikawa
  • Voltage rise suppression circuit and panel television
    Patent number: 7660089
    Abstract: Included are a Zener diode D2 having a cathode connected onto a voltage output line, dividing resistors having one terminal connected to the anode of the Zener diode D2 and having the other terminal grounded, a transistor Q1 having a base connected to the junction point between the dividing resistors via a resistor and having an emitter grounded, a transistor Q2 having a base connected to the junction point between the dividing resistors and having an emitter grounded, and a microcomputer having an undervoltage detection terminal 10a which is connected to the collector of the transistor Q1 and to which 3.3 V is externally applied and a power supply terminal 10b which is connected to the collector of the transistor Q2 and via which a P-ON-H signal of 3.3 V that starts a power supply circuit 126 when the power supply is turned on is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keigo Shibata
  • Ionizer
    Patent number: D608880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Orihara, Takayuki Toshida, Akira Tadano
  • Device for floating objects
    Patent number: D608973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou Kanda, Takeshi Nishikawa
  • Diaphragm valve
    Patent number: D609306
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Moriyama
  • Diaphragm valve
    Patent number: D609307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Moriyama
  • Electric gripper
    Patent number: D609546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Fukano, Shoichi Makado
  • Flow sensor
    Patent number: D609591
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Oshima, Yasuhiro Yamashita
  • Electromagnetic valve cover
    Patent number: D609779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Miyazoe
  • Flow switch
    Patent number: D610233
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Shogo Kurisaki
  • Electric actuator
    Patent number: D611514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Fukano, Shoichi Makado, Junichi Saitoh
  • Multiposition cylinder
    Patent number: D612877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Noguchi
  • Solenoid valve
    Patent number: D615618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Someya
  • Diaphragm pump
    Patent number: D618705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: SMC Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Sadachika