Patents Assigned to Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8985387
    Abstract: In order to provide a card case in which cards can be automatically and promptly discharged one by one, the case has a case body capable of accommodating more than one cards inside, a card discharging plate mounted so as to proceed from and retreat into the case body via a card discharging opening provided on a side portion of the case body, with a card being placed on its upper surface, and an elastic piece for movably urging the card discharging plate in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8938857
    Abstract: To provide a slide hinge which can be easily attached to a door or a cabinet main body of honeycomb cardboard, on which attaching screws do not work well, and which is further devised to eliminate a risk of escape from the door after the fixation, fittings enabling a coupling case to be attached to the door even without attaching screws or nails are provided; furthermore, each of the fittings comprises an attaching case part integrally connected to each side portion of the coupling case, and an fitting for each attaching case part; then, this fitting comprises a locking plate housed into the attaching case part and a diameter expanding means pushing out craw portions of the locking plate; the diameter expanding means further comprises an operating plate with pressurizing portions protruding on an outer circumference and a cap locked by a locking plate on each attaching case part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd., Toppan Cosmo, Inc., The Hard Industries. Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Motosugi, Takashi Yamato, Hozumi Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20140096343
    Abstract: To provide a slide hinge which can be easily attached to a door or a cabinet main body of honeycomb cardboard, on which attaching screws do not work well, and which is further devised to eliminate a risk of escape from the door after the fixation, fittings enabling a coupling case to be attached to the door even without attaching screws or nails are provided; furthermore, each of the fittings comprises an attaching case part integrally connected to each side portion of the coupling case, and an fitting for each attaching case part; then, this fitting comprises a locking plate housed into the attaching case part and a diameter expanding means pushing out craw portions of the locking plate; the diameter expanding means further comprises an operating plate with pressurizing portions protruding on an outer circumference and a cap locked by a locking plate on each attaching case part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicants: KATOH ELECTRICAL MACHINERY CO., LTD., THE HARD INDUSTRIES. INC., TOPPAN COSMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideki MOTOSUGI, Takashi YAMATO, Hozumi IKUTA
  • Patent number: 8646649
    Abstract: In order to provide a card case in which cards can be securely discharged one by one to the last one, it comprises a storage case which has a card insertion inlet and a card discharging opening, can accommodate several cards inside and comprises a lower case and an upper case; a card push-up piece for pushing up the stored cards as a whole toward the upper case; a card discharging unit with a component with a locking part for locking the uppermost one of the several cards and provided on the upper case so as to be slidable toward the card discharging opening; a guide part provided close to the card discharging opening so as to incline the tip of the card obliquely downward; and a stopper provided close to the card discharging opening so as to prevent the second and lower cards (from the uppermost one) of the several cards from being pushed out of the card discharging opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8567641
    Abstract: A business card case includes a storage case, a fixing part, a lifting part, a guiding part and a discharging button. The storage case comprises a discharging opening for discharging a card, which stores cards in its interior and comprises a lower case and an upper case vertically detachable from each other. The fixing part fixes the lower case and the upper case while both the cases overlap each other. The lifting part provided on the lower case lifts up cards stored in the lower case toward the upper case. The guiding part attached to one of sides of the storage case bends at least of the ones at the top of the cards stored in the lower case. The discharging button slidably provided toward the discharging opening on the upper case includes a locking portion for locking the cards at the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8166576
    Abstract: An opening/closing device for openably/closably supports an opening/closing part with regard to an opened/closed part, and the opening/closing device is characterized in that it comprises an attaching part attached to the opened/closed part so as to rotate around a rotation axis together with the opening/closing part, a rotation part rotatably attached to an attaching portion extending from a rotation center of the attaching part and engaged with the opened/closed part, and a friction torque generation means provided between the attaching portion of the attaching part and the rotation part, as well as in that the opening/closing device is so configured that it can bring the opening/closing part to stop using free-stop function, when the opening/closing part is opened and closed with regard to the opened/closed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 8139994
    Abstract: In order to reduce a number of parts and required costs, and to improve operability during assembly and maintenance, the automatic original cover closer comprises hinge portions having a supporting member which supports the original cover to be opened and closed with regard to a main body of an office equipment and a driving portion automatically driving the supporting member of the hinge portions. The automatic original cover closer is characterized in that the supporting member is rotatably supported via a rotation shaft on a mounting member attached to the main body, that the driving portion comprises a driving motor and a driving force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a rotation drive force of the driving motor to the rotation shaft, and that the rotation shaft is adjusted so that its rotation drive force can be transmitted to the supporting member via a shaft engaging members fixedly attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Naokazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8060166
    Abstract: the slide device and the portable equipment are equipped with a base member mounted on either one of a first casing and a second casing being components of a portable equipment, a slider member slidably mounted on either other one of the first casing and the second casing, and urging means provided between the slider member and the base member for slidably urging the base member and the slider member in a closing and/or an opening direction, and a slide engagement portion includes a plurality of guide rail portions provided on the slider member, a guide long hole provided outside a plurality of the guide rail portions on the slider member and extending in a slide direction, engagement portions provided on the base member and respectively engaged with each of the guide rail portions, and a slide guide portion engaged with the guide long hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Kato, Taichi Nishihara
  • Patent number: 7724405
    Abstract: To provide an original cover closer and an office equipment in which a position adjustment and positioning of an original cover can be performed easily, and a downsizing can be realized, the original cover closer which supports the original cover relative to an equipment main body of the office equipment openably/closably, includes: a position adjusting means adjusting a parallel position of the original cover relative to the equipment main body at a closer main body of the original cover closer, and an operation portion of the position adjusting means is constituted so as to be operatable from a lateral side of the closer main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Kondo
  • Patent number: 7512376
    Abstract: An automatic original cover closer to practically realize an automatic opening and closing function of an original cover, has a hinge part to rotatably support an original cover to the main body of office equipment and a driving part to automatically drive the hinge part. The hinge part includes a mounting member to mount on the main body and a supporting member to support the original cover to be axially supported to this mounting member so as to be rotatable with a rotary shaft via the rotary shaft. The driving part includes a positively and reversely rotatable drive motor and a power transferring mechanism to decelerate and transfer the rotary driving power of this drive motor to a drive shaft. The rotary driving power of the drive motor is transferred to the supporting member via the drive shaft and the rotary shaft, by connecting the rotary shaft to the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naokazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7478458
    Abstract: A biaxial hinge device, rotates a second member with regard to a first member around a first axis for opening and closing in a vertical direction, and rotates the second member with regard to the first member around a second axis in a horizontal direction. The hinge has a vertical direction rotation controlling mechanism of the second member having the first axis, and a horizontal direction rotation controlling mechanism of the second member having the second axis. A movable stopper is further mounted between a supporting member of the vertical direction rotation controlling mechanism and an attaching member of the horizontal direction rotation controlling mechanism, to which the supporting member is rotably attached. A rotation in a horizontal direction is therefore controlled within a range of predetermined angles, additionally further rotation in the same direction is available via pressing of the second member into the desired direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideya Tajima
  • Patent number: 7463913
    Abstract: To provide a slide mechanism of a portable device structured to allow slide operation semiautomatically, and a portable telephone provided with the slide mechanism of the portable device, it comprises a base member 5 mounted on either one of the first casing 2 and the second casing 3, a slider 4 slidably engaged with the base member 5 and mounted on the other of the first casing 2 and the second casing 3, and a slide energizing means 6 provided between the slider 4 and the base member 5. The slide energizing means 6 is constituted of a rotary arm 7 rotatably mounted on either one of the base member 5 and the slider 4, and an energizing member 8 mounted on the other of the base member 5 and the slider 4, allowing the first casing 2 and the second casing 3 to automatically open/close from a predetermined opening/closing position by acting on the rotary arm 7 to energize the rotary arm 7 to rotate from a predetermined rotary position to both of right and left directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isao Nagashima
  • Patent number: 7440712
    Abstract: An original cover closer has first and second parts for supporting the cover on a main body of office equipment. The first part supports a heavier side of the cover and a second part supports the lighter side of the cover. Both parts have a mounting member with a bottom plate mounted on the main body and a first supporting member having a top plate and side plates extending downwardly, and rotatably mounted via a hinge pin at respective ends of the mounting member. A first lifting member is mounted via a second hinge pin at respective ends of the top plate so that the first lifting member is rotatable in a reverse direction to the first supporting member. A resilient member rotationally urges the cover in an opening direction by applying force toward the first supporting member and applying force on another end toward the first lifting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tayayuki Uchida
  • Patent number: 7403612
    Abstract: To attain a slide mechanism of a portable terminal device which, having a minimal number of parts and keeping the same function as that of a conventional one, enables a substantial production cost reduction, a mechanism relatively slides a first casing and a second casing in a state that the casings are laid over each other in a vertical direction, and is constituted with: a slide case mounted on either one of the first casing and the second casing; a slider slidably accommodated in the slide case and mounted on the other one of the first casing and the second casing; and a resilient means resiliently disposed between the slider and the slide case. The slide case is formed as an integral structure with a guide groove which extends to both ends in a longitudinal direction with the one end thereof being opened. Additionally the slider has a shape which enables the slider to be inserted into the guide groove in an engaged state from the open end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taichi Nishihara
  • Patent number: 7380313
    Abstract: In order to provide a hinge device exhibiting a latchless function even if a lock mechanism exposed on respective surfaces of a main body and a lid body is abolished and a small-sized electronic equipment using the same, the present invention is a hinge device coupling the main body and the lid body in a turnable manner in an open/close direction and a direction perpendicular to it, in which the hinge device includes a mounting member and supporting member to be mounted to either the main body or the lid body; a horizontal shaft member mounted to the mounting member and having a locking groove at an outer periphery thereof; an orthogonal shaft member mounted to the supporting member and having an engaging groove at an outer periphery thereof, the orthogonal shaft groove being orthogonal to the horizontal shaft member; a bracket member mounted to the horizontal shaft member and the orthogonal shaft member to allow the main body and the lid body to turn in the open/close direction and the direction perpendicula
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignees: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Akiyama, Tsutomu Satoh
  • Patent number: 7319892
    Abstract: In a mechanism which relatively slides a first casing and a second casing of a portable terminal device in a state that the casings are laid over each other in a vertical direction, in order to attain a slide mechanism which is simply structured and structured to enable open/close operation of the first casing and the second casing to be automatically conducted from predetermined slide positions of the both casings, the mechanism relatively slides the first casing and the second casing in the state that the casings are laid over each other in the vertical direction, and is constituted with: a base member mounted on either one of the first casing and the second casing; a slider slidably mounted on the base member and mounted on the other one of the first casing and the second casing; and a resilient means, which is disposed between the slider and the base member, for slidably biasing the slider in a closing direction and/or an opening direction from predetermined slide positions, by being displaced according t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7319893
    Abstract: A mechanism for sliding relatively in the longitudinal direction the first case and the second case in their superposed state in order to provide a sliding mechanism for mobile terminals that can be produced at a low cost wherein the use of a single sliding module is sufficient, the total length of this sliding module can be shortened to avoid its exposure from the case during use, the locking plate and the sliding cover that constitute the sliding case of the sliding module are not welded but are simply engaged so that the entire construction of the sliding mechanism may be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Kato, Taichi Nishihara
  • Patent number: 7315620
    Abstract: A small-sized opening and closing device which relatively connects a first member and a second member with each other to open and close, and is composed of a shaft, a cam member attached to said shaft, a slider cam attached slidably to said shaft facing to said cam member; a compression spring wound around said shaft to push said slider cam toward said cam member side, and wherein said cam member and said cam slider each having two kinds of cam portions located on an axial core side and an outer circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7187957
    Abstract: A portable terminal device includes: a first member having a keyboard operation portion; and a second member having a display portion and attached to the first member via a coupling member movable in a horizontal direction relative to the first member, the second member being movable together with the coupling member in the horizontal direction relative to the first member. The second member is rotatably attached to the coupling member so that a side face or a rear face of the second member is allowed to face forward after the coupling member is moved in the horizontal direction relative to the first member. It is also possible to attach the coupling member to the first member so as to be slidable in one direction or rotatable in the horizontal direction, and to attach the second member to the coupling member to be rotatable in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato
  • Patent number: 7159833
    Abstract: A coupling device couples a first member and a second member to be relatively slidable and horizontally rotatable. The device is provided with the first member having a keyboard unit section and the second member having a display unit section in respectively separate boxes thereof. The coupling device includes a main body portion having a long guide hole to be attached to either of the first member or the second member in the longitudinal direction, and a movable portion to be attached to the other member of the first member and the second member. The main body includes a case body provided with a long guide groove, and a lid portion provided with a long guide hole, and the movable portion includes a head portion to be passed through the long guide hole and a guide leg portion to be fitted into the long guide groove. When the movable portion is rotatably fitted into the main body, a guide recess portion is provided next to the long guide groove for allowing the guide leg portion to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Katoh Electrical Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Kato