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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937812 | Boot band The resistance against the portion of a band body that is riding over engagement claws at the time of fastening the band body is reduced, so that the band body can be fastened by a small amount of fastening force. This boot band consists of: a band body that is fast... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7832062 | Boot band The amount of fastening caused by clamping an ear part 4 is confirmed with a simple structure. A boot band consists comprises: a band 1 that is wound—on a member to be fastened to another member—in such a ring shape that the band's overlapping part... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7788768 | Door closer A door closer that integrally incorporates a door-opening-assistance device, and that therefore eliminates the need for unnecessary troublesome adjustment between parts, and whose number of parts is reduced, making said door closer compact. The door closer 1 ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7743472 | Boot band A boot-band that (a) does not excessively clamp a boot, (b) can prevent leakage of grease from the boot and the boot-band, and (c) uniformly produces a tight contact force on the boot without deteriorating the contact force on the boot. This boot-band includes a met... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7463041 | High-density electroconductive contact probe with uncompressed springs A holder 1 is formed by laminating support members 3, 4 and 5 and passing holder holes 2 through them. A pair of needle members 9 and 10 are provided on either end of the coil spring 8. Each of the needle members 9... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7438168 | Cushion plate A cushion plate is provided, for example, between a piston of a hydraulic servo and an adjacent friction plate in a frictional engagement element of an automatic transmission. The cushion plate is deflected by a pressing force of the piston to absorb an engagement s... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424769 | Boot band Buckling is prevented at the time of clamping a band body, and the band body is made short. A boot band comprises a band body 31 that is wound in a ring shape—around a member to be clamped—in such a way that the outer-layer portion 32 of the band b... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422404 | Facilitated tightening device A facilitated tightening device allowing a bolt to be inserted smoothly by preventing a screw block engaged with the bolt from being inclined or falling down, comprising a base (2) having a bolt-insertion hole (7) partly forming a bolt-receiving face (... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7359157 | Resin and metal head suspension for disk drive A head suspension for a disk drive has support plate means (3, 7) serving as a carriage arm and a load beam (5). The load beam consists of a rigid part (13) and a resilient part (15), to apply load to a slider (43) of a head. The s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7255401 | Automobile headrest A headrest stay for supporting a headrest is inserted in a headrest bush and is supported. A height adjusting mechanism is attached to the headrest bush at a position corresponding to an upper end portion of a seat back. A headrest removal prevention device for prev... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7204558 | Automobile headrest Provided is an automobile headrest which can be prevented from being drawn out inadvertently or on purpose, and can be drawn out through a special operation if necessary. The automobile headrest includes a falloff preventing mechanism that can be composed of the sam... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6740431 | Medium for identifying matter to be identified and method for production thereof In an identification medium for identifying an authenticity of an object either visually or optically by using an identification device, high polymer cholesteric liquid crystal is applied onto the object, onto a sticker adapted to be affixed to the object or onto a ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6513880 | Power actuator suitable for vehicle occupant restraint systems Provided is a compact power actuator which is simple in structure, reliable in operation, and easy to install. The power actuator comprises a piston assembly which is received in a fixed cylinder for either directly or indirectly engaging a vehicle occupa... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6450573 | Anti-submarine vehicle seat device Provided is a vehicle seat device equipped with an anti-submarine vehicle seat device for preventing submarine at the time of an impact without increasing the size and weight of the seat assembly. The casing and/or the restraint member serve the dual purp... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6439552 | Overhead wire tensioning device The overhead wire tensioning device of the present invention is improved in reliability and eliminates the need for constant maintenance work by protecting the slide mechanism between the cylinder case of the gas spring type overhead wire tensioning devic... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6337572 | Electric contact probe unit In an electric contact probe unit using a perforated plate member as a holder member, the holder member is made of material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion so that, even when used in a high temperature environment, the thermal expansion of t... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6330120 | Actuator for objective lenses A resilient support member 5 is provided between a lens holder 2 and a base member 4 to resiliently support the lens retainer 2 with respect to the base member 4. A pair of auxiliary damping members 10a and 10b extend along the length of the resilient sup... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6301047 | System for optically identifying an object The object to be identified is affixed with an identification medium comprising a reflective layer consisting of a reflective hologram or diffraction grating. The high polymer cholesteric liquid crystal provides an inexpensive identification medium, and t... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6259671 | Object lens actuator The peak value of the higher resonant frequency vibration of a moveable part of an object lens actuator is reduced without requiring any additional mounting space, increasing the number of component parts or adding weight by appropriately adjusting the mo... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6204486 | Heater unit for semiconductor processing In a heater unit, comprising a lower metallic base, an upper metallic base placed closely over an upper surface of said lower base, and a resistance heater wire received in a groove defined between opposing surfaces of said lower and upper bases, ceramic ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6180931 | Heater unit for semiconductor processing An upper metallic base is placed over a lower metallic base with a resistance heater element interposed between them so as to cause a plastic deformation to at least one of the opposing surfaces until the corresponding surfaces conform to an outer profile... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6164700 | Seat belt pretensioner device In a pretensioner device for automatically increasing a tension of a seat belt in case of a vehicle crash which uses a piston and cylinder arrangement as a power generator, a spring member resiliently urges the piston assembly in the direction of actuatio... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6061122 | Optical identification system using cholesteric liquid crystals Provided is an economical identification system suitable for use on commercial products which is difficult to duplicate, and highly identifiable. The system includes an identification medium having a high-polymer cholesteric liquid crystal material applie... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6024346 | Coil spring resistant to permanent set and fatigue By controlling the thickness of the nitrization layer formed on the surface, the coil spring made of spring steel may be made highly resistant to permanent set and fatigue. By carbonitriding the material of the coil spring to a depth of 20 to 50 μm from ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5860757 | Ball joint A ball joint comprises a metallic stud bolt having a male screw on one end side and a spread portion on the other end side, a resin ball member of synthetic resin having a spherical portion covering the spread portion, and a ball seat of synthetic resin h... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5798655 | Contact probe unit including needle members urged by a resilient material block Provided is a contact probe unit for establishing an electric contact between parts to be contacted and terminals of an external circuit. A plurality of needle members are slidably received individually in support holes provided in a support block. A resi... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5701575 | Article made of a Ti-Al intermetallic compound, and method for fabrication of same An article essentially consisting of one or more of Ti--Al intermetallic compounds is fabricated so as to have a volume ratio of voids no more than 3.5%, by preparing a mixture of materials selected from a group consisting of Ti, Ti alloys, Al, Al alloys,... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5442433 | Identification system for an article having individually attached patches Each identification mark consisting of hologram or diffraction grating having a unique diffractive property which can be detected with optical identification means is formed on a seal, and, by affixing such seals as a combination and reading them, the ana... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5438403 | Article identification system Provided is a system for identifying the authenticity of an article which is reliable, and would not restrict the freedom of design. An identification region is defined on the article for identification purpose. The identification region comprises a light... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5414369 | Coil spring-pressed needle contact probe modules with offset needles In a contact probe having a pair of needle members elastically projecting from two ends thereof for temporarily connecting two points by contacting them with the two needle members, a coil spring interposed between the needle member consists of material h... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5410260 | Coil spring-pressed needle contact probe In a contact probe, the conventional tubular holder for receiving the needle member and the compression coil spring is eliminated by receiving them in a through hole provided in an insulator assembly consisting of at least two layers of insulating plate m... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5394099 | Electroconductive contact probe with intermediately supported, spring urged converging needles having parallel free ends A contact probe unit includes a plurality of contact probes secured to a receptacle holder plate member, and a free end guide plate member provided with a plurality of guide holes for slidably receiving the needle members, at a density higher than that of... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5295299 | Method for forming a mounting hole in a method for forming a metallic printed circuit board To the end of forming a countersunk hole in a metallic printed circuit board consisting of a metallic plate, an insulating layer, and a printed circuit pattern formed on the insulating layer, for receiving a countersunk head of a mounting screw which is p... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5185729 | Optical head with improved tracking and focusing error capabilities An optical head for reading and/or writing information from and in an optical recording medium having an improved sensor structure for focusing and tracking error detections. A light beam is separated into a 0th-order diffraction light beam and &#b1;1st-o... | 02/09/1993 |
