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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176939 | Fluid pressure equipment provided with low sliding packing A packing attached to a spool of a spool valve has a ring-shaped inner-peripheral seal portion provided with an inner-peripheral seal face, a ring-shaped outer-peripheral seal portion provided with an outer-peripheral seal face, and an intermediate flexible portion ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174814 | Wire electrode type ionizer An ionizer includes positive and negative wire electrodes each formed of a conductive wire with a circular cross section. The wire electrodes are arranged in parallel with each other, each having circumferential surfaces serving as a discharge surface on which a cor... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8133307 | Dehumidification type air system A dehumidification type air system is configured such that a switching valve and an air-used device are connected through a dehumidifying member made of a polymer permeation membrane with moisture permeability, and by bringing a moisture emitting face of the dehumid... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132593 | Pilot-operated three-port valve A pilot-operated three-port valve includes three ports, two valve seats that are concentric and opposite each other, a poppet-type valve member that is disposed between these two valve seats, and a pilot operating portion that opens and closes the valve member using... | 03/13/2012 |
| D655314 | Multi-position cylinder | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116060 | Ionizer An ionizer includes a fan for blowing air, the fan being provided in an air blowing port which opens in a case, and a plurality of discharge electrodes for generating positive and negative ions by corona discharge, the discharge electrodes being provided in the case... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8061385 | Combined safety valve A coupling frame formed at a connecting portion on an out-port side of a first safety valve, and a coupling frame formed at a connecting portion on an in-port side of a second safety valve are brought into contact with each other, directly or by causing a plate-shap... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8037901 | Solenoid valve having a hollow cap mounted on a leading end of a movable iron core A solenoid valve that is constructed as follows: a cap is mounted on a movable iron core such that forward movement thereof is restricted; a pressing member is displaceably arranged between abutting seat surfaces of the cap and the movable iron core; biasing forces ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8024923 | Air cylinder apparatus An electromagnetic valve, a circuit board on which a control circuit for controlling the electromagnetic valve is mounted, and a cover for covering the electromagnetic valve and the circuit board are installed on a device-attaching surface of an adapter plate dispos... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8015991 | Manifold-type solenoid valve apparatus having stop valve A plurality of solenoid valves are installed on a valve mount surface of a manifold base to receive a pressure fluid supplied from a supply passage of the manifold base via a supply communication hole. A stop valve base connected to a side surface of the manifold ba... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7959129 | Two-port solenoid valve A first cap is mounted at a movable iron core, a second cap holding a valve member is fitted to the first cap, capable of displacement, an biasing force F1 of an iron-core return spring biasing the movable iron core toward an initial position and an biasing f... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954786 | Solenoid valve assembly A socket housing formed on the side of a solenoid valve body includes a socket thereinside connected with a coil of a solenoid operation section. A power feeding terminal box for holding a pin-shaped power feeding terminal connected with a power feeding line is hous... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940509 | Ionizer having mechanism for cleaning discharge electrodes Discharge electrodes for generating ion and a member for cleaning the discharge electrodes are mounted on an electrode support frame, which is detachably attached to the case of an ionizer. When the electrode support frame is attached to the case, the cleaning membe... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7920368 | Static Eliminator A static eliminator that can be placed at a close distance capable of eliminating static electricity while preventing furious elevation of the surface electric potential of a work when the static eliminator is placed at a close distance to the work. A cover formed b... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898791 | Ionizer with drop-off prevention device for electrode In an ionizer, in which an electrode cartridge having a pair of electrodes is mounted in an electrode-attaching opening of a housing so as to be freely attached and detached by means of rotating the same around a center axial line, a drop-off prevention cover is att... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898790 | Ionizer An ionizer is formed by coupling a fan unit provided with a discharge electrode and a fan and a control unit provided with an indicator and an adjuster to each other, and both units are changeable between a normal coupling condition, where both are directed in the s... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896313 | Linear motion-type gate valve A gate valve includes a valve plate for opening and closing a gas passageway, and an air cylinder and a shaft for linearly moving the valve plate between a main housing portion and a storage housing portion of a housing, and the air cylinder is arranged on the first... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896254 | Temperature regulation method and system for low flow rate liquid A method and a system for controlling temperature of a liquid in small flow amount, for supplying a liquid whose temperature is highly accurately controlled, as a flow of a small flow amount or an intermittent flow. A liquid supplied from a supply path is pressurize... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891932 | Straight conveying device for vacuum A working rod with a tip end extending into a vacuum process chamber and moving in the axial direction, two static-pressure gas bearings supporting the rod in the non-contact manner, and an internal moving body of a magnet coupling type driving mechanism driving the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7886652 | Positioning control mechanism for single-acting air cylinder An electromagnetic operation-type automatic pressure-adjusting valve outputting an air pressure corresponding to an amount of electric power is connected in an air flow path connecting a pressure chamber of a single-acting main cylinder and an air source. A controll... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7841578 | Vacuum valve In a vacuum valve composed of a main valve portion that opens and closes a vale seat in a flow path connecting two ports by a valve member, and an operating portion that performs an opening and closing operation for the valve member, the housing of the main valve po... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836690 | Positioning control mechanism for double-acting air cylinder Between an air source and a first pressure chamber of a double-acting main cylinder having a length measurement sensor for measuring an acting position of a piston, a supply solenoid valve is connected; between the first pressure chamber and the atmosphere, an exhau... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7821762 | Piezoelectric transformer type ionizer and neutralization method With a piezoelectric transformer formed of a ferroelectric element which generates a high voltage in a secondary section upon application of an AC voltage to a primary section, ground electrodes are attached to upper and lower surfaces of the secondary section of th... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7802920 | Static-pressure gas bearing mechanism A first and a second static-pressure gas bearings supporting a rod at two locations in the axial direction in the non-contact manner are provided, in which the first static-pressure gas bearing is fixedly supported by a bearing housing, while the second static-press... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7753076 | Electromagnetic valve A feeder terminal connected to the core wire of the feeder cable is installed in the storage chamber of the terminal storage box, and the feeder cable and the feeder terminal are gripped to be fixed between the terminal storage box and the lid such that the feeder s... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7748223 | Constant temperature liquid bath A constant temperature liquid bath using a thermo-module in which even if an article whose temperature is to be controlled exists in the bath, the temperature of the liquid is efficiently adjusted to a constant value. The liquid bath includes an outer bath storing t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7731518 | Stacking connector A stacking connector is formed by a connector main body and a plug substrate, the connector main body has a substrate sandwiching member including a sandwiching gap into which the plug substrate fits, and a projection projecting into the sandwiching gap, the plug su... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7695552 | Ionizer In an ionizer composed of an electrode needle cartridge and a main body block, the electrode needle cartridge is provided with an electrode needle for generating an ion, a high voltage generating device for applying high voltage to the electrode needle, and a receiv... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7690622 | Diaphragm-type electromagnetic valve with closing-force strengthening mechanism An auxiliary valve member, an auxiliary pilot pressure chamber for applying a pilot fluid pressure to the auxiliary valve body, and a transmitting rod for transmitting operating force of the auxiliary valve body to a main diaphragm are provided other than the main d... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7677264 | Manifold-type solenoid valve with external port A manifold-type solenoid valve comprises a main valve section and a solenoid operating section. The main valve section has a spool in a valve hole to which respective switching flow paths for supply, output, and discharge are opened. The main valve section comprises... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7637315 | Constant temperature liquid circulating device and method of controlling temperature in the device In a constant temperature liquid circulating device that connects a piping of circulating liquid in an external device between a discharge port and a return port of a conduit for delivering the circulating liquid at a constant temperature by a pump, a flow amount se... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7607471 | Temperature control device In a temperature control device, a plurality of screening cylinders each having a different diameter are concentrically arranged within a liquid tank to concentrically form a plurality of layered channels which are communicated to define a circulation passage throug... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7607454 | Vacuum and vacuum-breaking composite valve A composite valve includes a main valve unit that individually opens and closes a vacuum channel for applying vacuum pressure to a load and a pressure channel for supplying vacuum-breaking pressure fluid with two valves for vacuuming and pressurizing; a channel comb... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7591280 | Manifold-type solenoid valve assembly To obtain a manifold type solenoid valve assembly in which an solenoid valve which is equipped with an output port and an solenoid valve which is equipped with no output port are mixed and mounted on a common manifold base. On a valve mounting part of the manifold b... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7586731 | Ion balance adjusting method and method of removing charges from workpiece by using the same When charges are removed from a charged workpiece by applying positive and negative pulse-like high voltages to positive and negative electrode needles to generate positive and negative ions in a charge removing area and feeding the charged workpiece into the charge... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7557568 | Actuator with position detecting mechanism A position detecting mechanism for specifying the position of a movable body using magnetism includes a magnetic device mounted to the movable body and a magnetic sensor mounted to a housing. The magnetic device includes a pair of yokes made of a magnetic substance,... | 07/07/2009 |
| D595390 | Electromagnetic valve | 06/30/2009 |
| 7536944 | Air pressure cylinder for positioning control A slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism is attached to a piston rod 6 of an air pressure cylinder that stops the piston at a target position by means of a positioning control. The slight-vibration-suppressing mechanism includes a friction member formed of a ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7526993 | Fluid pressure cylinder apparatus having throttle valve A cylindrically shaped valve rod is housed in a valve hole formed in a cylinder body in a manner so as to be rotatable around a center axis line, and a connecting hole having a first hole opening that is allowed to communicate with a first flow path hole, and a seco... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7523763 | Three-port electromagnetic valve A valve body includes a poppet type valve member disposed therein and a through hole formed thereto wherein first and second cylindrical synthetic resin retainers are fitted to the through hole. Valve seats are disposed to the end walls of both the retainers confron... | 04/28/2009 |
