Patents Assigned to COMPANY LIMITED
  • Patent number: 6045732
    Abstract: A multi-layer molded article having a skin material layer made of a vinyl chloride resin, a propylene resin core, and an adhesive layer present between the skin material layer and the core, in which the adhesive layer includes (A) a layer having (a) a sublayer containing a polyester resin and an epoxy group-containing ethylene copolymer, which is bonded to the skin material of the vinyl chloride resin, and (b) a sublayer containing at least one copolymer selected from an ethylene copolymer and an epoxy group-containing copolymer, which is bonded to said propylene resin core, or (B) a layer obtained from an ethylene resin composition containing a polybasic carboxylic acid and an epoxy-group containing copolymer (c) which contains ethylene units, unsaturated carboxylic acid glycidyl ester units or unsaturated glycidyl ether units and an ethylenically unsaturated ester units other than the unsaturated carboxylic acid glycidyl ester units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakatsuji, Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Kohsuke Ohtani, Toshio Igarashi, Satoru Funakoshi, Harunori Fujita
  • Patent number: 6045349
    Abstract: A wrinkleless plastic film having excellent quality without the reduction of width can be manufactured with high productivity using a rolling apparatus in which a plastic film is rolled stepwise at two rolling deformation points formed by two driving rolls and a follower roll, which rolls are brought into continuous contact with each other along the passage of the plastic film and said follower roll is driven by the rotation of said two driving rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Ishida, Tadayoshi Kato
  • Patent number: 6041832
    Abstract: A wire twist-preventing device in a winding machine of the invention comprises a flyer for forming a coil by winding a plurality of wires, which are arranged parallel with one another in a tape shape, around a winding frame having a plurality of winding stages which gradually increase upward in winding diameter, when the winding frame is lowered stage by stage, a dummy flyer which is rotated together with the flyer; and a dummy drum rotatably provided coaxially with the winding frame and having a circumferential length which is substantially equal to an average circumferential length of the winding frame, wherein the wires are wound around the winding frame by the flyer while they are wound around the dummy drum by the dummy flyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Odawara Engineering Company Limited
    Inventors: Noburo Miyawaki, Yuuki Kohno, Yohji Ohmori, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6042798
    Abstract: A method for the desulfurization of hydrocarbons by desulfurizing unsaturated hydrocarbons or hydrocarbon materials containing unsaturated hydrocarbons, in the presence or absence of hydrogen, using a copper-zinc desulfurizing agent prepared by the co-precipitation method. By this method, the sulfur content of the hydrocarbons can be reduced while suppressing hydrogenation of the unsaturated hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Company Limited
    Inventors: Masataka Masuda, Osamu Okada, Takeshi Tabata, Yasuhiro Hirai, Hiroki Fujita
  • Patent number: 6042586
    Abstract: Device for preventing cornea from collapsing including a domed frame with an irrigation duct perforated therein up to the dome of the frame, and elastic latex membrane attached to, and tightly bound at the brim of, the dome; and a chamber formed between the frame and the elastic latex membrane. The frame is incorporated in the irrigation line running from an irrigation bottle to the irrigation inlet of an ultrasound handpiece. Through the irrigation duct perforated in the frame, the chamber is linked to the irrigation line. The chamber inflates or constricts, as irrigation flows in or out, by the inflating and repulsing force of the elastic latex membrane generated by the up-to bottom irrigation. By emitting the irrigation solution into an eye through the irrigation line, the cornea is prevented from collapsing. The device with construction of an elastic latex membrane attached to the domed frame, and incorporated in the irrigation line, is especially useful for ultra-high vacuum phacoemulsification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignees: Japan Focus Company Limited, Kawano, Koji
    Inventors: Koji Kawano, Hiroyuki Kitsukawa
  • Patent number: 6042945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light diffusing laminated resin sheet produced by laminating a resin layer (B) on at least one surface of a resin layer (A), the resin layer (A) being made by dispersing uniformly 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a light diffusing agent having a weight-average particle size from 1 to 10 .mu.m into 100 parts by weight of a base resin comprising 100 parts by weight of a methyl methacrylate resin or styrene resin and 0 to 30 parts by weight of a rubber-like polymer, and the resin layer (B) being made by dispersing uniformly 3 to 70 parts by weight of a rubber-like polymer into 100 parts by weight of a methyl methacrylate resin or styrene resin and essentially containing no inorganic particle dispersed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventor: Tomohiro Maekawa
  • Patent number: 6042362
    Abstract: There is disclosed a thermosetting resin injection molding machine comprising: a heating cylinder including a body having a device for introducing a resin material into said body, and a sleeve having an injection port for injecting the resin material; and a screw reciprocally movable in the heating cylinder, wherein the screw includes a body having a flight, and a piston portion provided at a front end of the screw body, and a diameter of the piston portion is smaller than a diameter of the flight; wherein an inner diameter of a working portion of the sleeve is smaller than an inner diameter of the heating cylinder body; wherein a length of the piston portion, a length of the working portion of the sleeve and an annular clearance between the working portion of the sleeve and the piston portion are so determined that a predetermined amount of the resin can remain for cushion molding at a front end of the piston portion during dwell after the injection of the resin material; and wherein a resin compressing port
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
    Inventor: Masahiro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 6043811
    Abstract: A color graphic processor generating a picture screen formed by a two-dimensional pixel array for a raster-scan display. The color graphic processor comprises a scan image generator and a color video encoder. A circular pixel buffer having a plurality of pixel buffer units is used to buffer pixel data for drawing and displaying. The pixel buffer unit storing the pixel information of a current scanning position is circularly reused after the scanning position moves to the next one. The number of pixel buffer unit is flexible and does not have to be the same as the number of pixels in a horizontal scan line. A transparent information storage means and a transparent controller are included to reduce the size of the pixel buffer and control transparent pixels. The color video encoder processes digital luminosity, saturation and hue signals according to a video sync signal and a color burst flag signal to generate a digital luminosity signal and a digital chromaticity signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: SSD Company Limited
    Inventors: Shuhei Kato, Koichi Sano
  • Patent number: 6042947
    Abstract: A laminated glass to be used as a front windshield of an automotive vehicle including a head-up display system. The laminated glass comprises outboard-side and inboard-side glass plates. An intermediate film is interposed between the inboard-side and outboard-side glass plates to bond the glass plates to each other. An optically functioning film such as a polarization-direction changing film is bonded to the outboard-side glass plate. At least one of the inboard-side glass plate, the outboard-side glass plate and the intermediate film is colored in a manner that a color difference between first and second parts of the laminate is not higher than 2.4, in which the first part includes the optically functioning film while the second part is other than the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Motoh Asakura, Kazuya Kobayashi, Shinji Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 6042629
    Abstract: A process provides for the production of fertilizer solutions from brewery cleaning solutions. The process comprises the steps of combining a brewery caustic potash cleaning solution with a brewery nitrogen- or phosphorus-containing acid cleaning solution in mutually neutralizing amounts. This process results in the production of a fertilizer solution comprising a neutralized potassium salt solution having nitrogen-containing, organic, brewing materials entrained therein. If desired, spent grains and/or spent yeast from the brewing process can be added to provide further nutrients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Labatt Brewing Company Limited
    Inventor: Michael Jerome McGarrity
  • Patent number: 6040339
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is alkyl; R.sup.2a, R.sup.2b, R.sup.2c and R.sup.2d are the same or different and each is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl or various other organic groups; R.sup.3 is alkyl; R.sup.4 is a group of formula (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII) or (IX): ##STR2## wherein: A.sup.1 is a single bond, alkylene or alkenylene; A.sup.2 is or alkenylene; A.sup.3 is a single bond, alkyleneor alkenylene; R.sup.5a and R.sup.5b are the same or different and each is hydrogen, alkyl or various other groups; R.sup.6 is alkyl or phenyl; R.sup.7 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sup.8 is alkyl or various other groups; and n is 0 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have valuable inhibitory activity against acyl-CoA: cholesterol acyl transferase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Akira Yoshida, Kozo Oda, Takashi Kasai, Kousei Shimada, Hiroshi Kogen, Ichiro Hayakawa, Sadao Ishihara, Teiichiro Koga, Eiichi Kitazawa, Taro Tokui
  • Patent number: 6039799
    Abstract: A paper coating composition which comprises:(I) a pigment,(II) an aqueous binder, and(III) a crosslinked amine compound obtainable by reacting a heterocyclic amine (a) and a glycidyl compound (b) having at least two glycidyl groups in the molecule,and a method for preparing the paper coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Akira Kawamura, Toshiyuki Hasegawa, Akira Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 6040454
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for preparing a 5-substituted tetrazole, the process comprising the step of reacting a nitrile with an inorganic azide salt in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent in the presence of an amine salt. According to the invention, a 5-substituted tetrazole can be produced in a high yield with ease and safety using inexpensive raw materials while the reaction is easily controlled to inhibit a side reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kasei Kogyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Kiyoto Koguro, Toshikazu Oga, Norihito Tokunaga, Sunao Mitsui, Ryozo Orita
  • Patent number: 6040270
    Abstract: A herbicidal composition for foliar treatment is described, which contains as active ingredients, (a) a compound of general formula [1] wherein R is alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, dimethylamino, or diethylamino; and (b) glyphosate or a salt thereof, or glufosinate-ammonium. The herbicidal composition is useful for effective control of a wide variety of weeds in upland fields, particularly in corn fields and in soybean fields. Also described are a weeding method by foliar treatment of weeds with the above herbicidal composition; and use as a herbicide for foliar treatment, of a mixture of the above active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventor: Nobuaki Mito
  • Patent number: 6039524
    Abstract: A wedge lock fastener assembly includes a threaded nut having a peripheral flange, a wedge lock end face, and plural wrench-receiving notches in said flange. An associated washer has a peripheral skirt encircling the nut flange, a wedge lock face, and plural tabs extending angularly from the skirt across the peripheral flange so that the washer is captively retained on the nut. Peripheral notches in the washer are adapted to align with the notches in the nut, such that a special wrench can be extended into the aligned notches for loosening the nut and washer as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Hong Kong Disc-Lock Company Limited
    Inventor: Alistair N. McKinlay
  • Patent number: 6038899
    Abstract: A method and system are provided that enable an operator without skills in performing bending operations to easily and quickly perform precise bending operations on a sheet workpiece by following a skilled operator's experience, hints or data. The method may include: storing data for a shape of a part; storing data related to a bending order for manufacturing the part from a workpiece; selecting tools for performing each bending operation; storing data for the selected tools or dies; storing bending press control data for controlling the operation of the bending press to perform the bending operations in accordance with the bending order; and storing bending operation support information for supporting an operator for performing the bending operations by using the bending press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Amada Company, Limited
    Inventor: Tadahiko Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 6040112
    Abstract: A chemical amplifying type positive photoresist composition, excellent in various properties such as film retention ratio, applicability, heat resistance, sensitivity, resolution, profile and time delay resistance, and not easily affected by environment, which comprises (A) a resin which is converted to alkali-soluble by the action of an acid, (B) an acid generator and (C) a tertiary amine compound having an ether bond; and a fine photoresist pattern can be formed in high precision using the photoresist composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuko Yako, Kenji Takahashi, Hiroshi Takagaki, Nobuhito Fukui
  • Patent number: 6037509
    Abstract: A process for producing 1-bromo-4-phenylbutane of the formula (1): ##STR1## which is characterized by the steps of; reacting 4-bromobutyryl halide of the formula (2): ##STR2## where X is a halogen atom, with benzene in the presence of a Lewis acid to give a 4-bromobutyrophenone of the formula (3): ##STR3## and reacting 4-bromobutyrophenone compound of the formula (3) with hydrogen in the presence of a metal catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinzo Seko, Atsushi Furutani
  • Patent number: 6037422
    Abstract: A polyarylene sulfide resin composition contains a polyarylene sulfide containing at least one group selected from a group consisting of an amino group and an amide group, a polyamide resin, an epoxy resin and, as needed, a filler. A further composition contains 100 parts by weight of the polyarylene sulfide, 0.05 to 5 parts of the epoxy resin, and 5 to 400 parts of the filler. Another type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the polyamide, a compound selected from an acid, an acid anhydride and an acid halide, each having in its molecule not less than two functional groups reactive with the amino group or the amide group, and, as needed, the filler. A further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide, the compound and, as needed, an inorganic filler subjected to surface treatment with a silane type coupling agent. A still further type of the resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide and the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Idemitsu Petrochemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Shinobu Yamao, Wataru Kosaka
  • Patent number: D421722
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Man Nin Shing Company Limited
    Inventor: Eddie Chang