Patents Assigned to Kotec's Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7380694
    Abstract: An attachment used for an apparatus for attaching a tag-attaching pin utilizing a sheet of tag-attaching pins in which a plurality of tag-attaching pins is provided. Each pin has a filament section, an inserting head section provided at one end of the filament section, and a socket section or a holding section provided at the another end of the filament section. The pins are mutually arranged in parallel configuration and at least the inserting head section, the socket section, or the holding section are connected to connecting bars. The attachment is provided with a connecting portion detachably coupled with a coupling means formed on a side wall surface of the apparatus and a tag attaching pin controlling means, which is provided on the side wall surface of the apparatus and extends upward from a top surface of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 6929166
    Abstract: A tag attaching device which can surely hold a tag hooked on a hollow needle projected from a front end portion of the tag attaching device. The device includes a main body 20, a gripping portion provided beneath the main body 20 and a lever 4 projected in front of the grip and swingably supported by the main body with a resilience force, and by driving the lever 4, a piston is moved forward via an internal mechanism so that a tag fastening element can be shot out. The device is characterized in that it provided with a tag holding member to tentatively hold a tag at a front of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 6848575
    Abstract: A plurality of fastening elements are arranged parallel to each other, each of the unit fastening elements having a filament section, an inserting head section equipped with a suitable engagement section at one end, and a socket section equipped with a hole for irreversibly passing the inserting head section located at the other end. The socket sections arranged on one connection bar, and the inserting head sections are arranged on another connection bar. The connection bars are closely arranged to each other so as to be oppositely disposed to each other with a predetermined length displaced to each other along a longitudinal direction of the bars. The filament section of each one of the unit fastening elements is formed in a curved configuration which is in fixed condition, so jamming is reduced when the operator couples the fastening element using a coupler gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Sanyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 6655571
    Abstract: To provide a safe fastening element attaching device as well as to improve the operability thereof. The present invention provides a fastening element attaching device for sequentially pushing out the lowest fastening element from an interior of a fastening element group, in which a plurality of fastening elements are formed integrally by a connection bar, comprises a switching mechanism for selectively discharging the foregoing connection bar, which remains after respective fastening elements are pushed out from the foregoing connection bar, from a plurality of places of the main portion of the device. Therefore, the safety of the fastening element attaching device is increased as well as the operability thereof is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Sanyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20030137154
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a fastening element which can be easily mounted on an attaching gun as well as provide a fastening element with less generation of jamming at the time of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 6595360
    Abstract: A fastening element with less jamming during operation includes a plurality of a unit fastening element arranged adjacently, each unit fastening element including a filament section, an inserting head section equipped with a suitable engagement section located at one end of the filament section, and a socket section equipped with a hole for irreversibly passing the inserting head section located at the other end of the filament section, where a plurality of the socket sections or their vicinities arranged adjacent to each other are temporarily fixed to the connection bar section individually installed, respectively, and a plurality of optional filament sections adjacent to each other are separably fixed temporarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Sanyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 6561350
    Abstract: A sealing implement has a plurality of single sealing implements having a flexible filament part, an insertion head part having an appropriate engaging part provided on one end part of the filament part, and a socket part having a hole for the purpose of irreversibly inserting the insertion head part provided on the other end of the filament, the arrangement of the plurality of single sealing implements being made so that the filament parts thereof are mutually parallel and adjacent, each of the plurality of insertion head parts, or socket parts in proximity thereto, or parts thereof being caused to be connected to separately provided connection bar parts and a filament part of the unit of sealing implement showing curvilinear configuration or at least one portion of said filament part thereof provided with a folded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 6527030
    Abstract: The present invention provides an unit of sealing implement comprising a plurality of single sealing implements each one of which comprising, a flexible filament part, an insertion head part having an appropriate engaging part provided on one end part of said filament part, and a socket part having a hole for the purpose of irreversibly inserting said insertion head part, and provided on another end of said filament, and wherein a plurality of said single sealing implements are mutually and adjacently arranged in parallel with each other and each of said plurality of insertion head parts or a portion proximity thereto and each of said plurality of socket parts or a portion proximity thereto being caused to be connected to separately provided connecting bars, respectively, and further wherein each of side wall surfaces of said socket part each being adjacently arranged to each other, and which being oppositely disposed to each other, are connected with each other via a connecting means and by using this sealin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 6446311
    Abstract: A loop pin with high tensile rupture strength has an insertion head portion with an appropriate mating part on one end and a socket portion comprising a hole for irreversibly passing the insertion head portion provided on the other end, wherein one part of the insertion head portion has formed on it two parallel surfaces along the axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Sanyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 6352156
    Abstract: An array if sealers for hangtags and the like includes plural parallel sealers on two connecting pieces. Each of the sealers includes a filament, an inserting head at one of the filament, and a socket at another end of the filament. Each sealer is attached to adjacent sealers with latching pieces that are arrayed on one or both sides of the connecting piece that is adjacent to the inserting heas. The latching pieces hold the sealers in proper alignment for a dispensing gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Publication number: 20010023836
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a fastening element with less generation of jamming at the time of operation. Because a fastening element comprises a plurality of a unit fastening element arranged adjacently, the unit fastening element comprising a filament section, an inserting head section equipped with a suitable engagement section located at one end of the filament section, and a socket section equipped with a hole for irreversibly passing the inserting head section located at the other end of the filament section, the fastening element characterized in that a plurality of the socket sections or their vicinities arranged adjacent to each other are temporarily fixed to the connection bar section individually installed, respectively, and a plurality of optional filament sections adjacent to each other are separably fixed temporarily, jamming is less generated when the operator couples the fastening element by the coupler gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Kotec's Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akihiro Goto
  • Publication number: 20010020634
    Abstract: To provide a safe fastening element attaching device as well as to improve the operability thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyucki Ueno
  • Patent number: 6126056
    Abstract: Apparatus for attaching tag pins prevents oscillation of a tag pin group several times as long as an ordinary tag pin group. The apparatus is formed by coupling heads and lateral bars through filaments into a product while separating the tag pins one by one from the tag pin group. The tag pin group is provided in a comb form in a long coupling bar through a coupling portion. A first tag pin group support guide of hook shape is rotatably supported on the top of the main body of the apparatus for attaching pins, and a second tag pin group support guide for preventing lateral swing of the tag pin group is disposed behind the first tag pin group support guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ueno, Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 6047447
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a new sealing device which has not a capability of the push-through head portion being re-inserted into the socket portion 2 again after when the sealing condition has once been broken and further, a new sealing device can be provided in which an evidence showing the fact that the sealed condition of the sealing device had been broken, intentionally, is remained on this sealing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd, Snayo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 5943741
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a new fastener means in which the inserting part thereof can easily be inserted into the aperture or a through hole provided inside the socket portion, and also to provide a new fastener means with which a desired fastener means can be easily singled out from a bundle thereof without generating any entanglement formed among the fasteners. The label supporting means comprising a linear flexible string portion 3, a holder portion 2 connected to one end of the string portion 3 and a connecting portion 4 connected to another end 32 of the string portion 3. The holder portion 2 is provided with a finger contacted grasping portion 15 between the holder portion 2 and the string portion 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Akira Furutsu
    Inventor: Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 5878935
    Abstract: To provide a tag attaching apparatus including a hollow needle having an expanding slot formed from the front end to the rear end of the needle at its side face in the body of the tag attaching apparatus. A needle cover having a groove for storing the hollow needle at its front and a groove for supporting a tag pin group inserted into a tag pin group guide groove at its back is set to the head of the tag attaching apparatus body enclosed by a transverse groove provided for the tag attaching apparatus body so as to communicate with the expanding slot and a tag pin group guide groove provided for the tag attaching apparatus body so as to intersect the transverse groove so that the needle cover can be vertically pivoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 5669543
    Abstract: A hollow needle for tag attachers, which comprises a blade (2) made by press working of a thin metal plate and a shank (3) of a synthetic resin integrally secured at a rear end part of the blade (2), wherein the blade (2) includes a front end part (2a) which has in a middle part thereof a semicircular shape in section and is formed in an outer surface portion thereof with a resistance reducing part (4) provided by partly depressing the outer periphery thereof, whereby the area of contact of a front end part of the hollow needle with an object partly through which the needle is applied in use is reduced and the needle has a desirable characteristic such that it can be applied straight in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignees: Kotec's Co., Ltd., Toska Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: D467794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Kotec's Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: D425133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Kotec's Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ueno