Helen of Troy Limited

Kokuyo Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Hisato Ogata

Shunji Yamanaka

Eugene Rye Kaneko

Kousuke Tokui

Yusuke Kawahara

Agato Nagata

An organic electroluminescent illuminating device is shown. The device includes, at least on flexible surface light-emitting unit and a single driving unit. The flexible surface light-emitting unit has a flexible substrate and at least one organic electroluminescent element on the flexible substrate. The single driving unit drives the flexible surface light-emitting unit. At least a portion of the flexible surface light-emitting unit is connected to the driving unit.

Organic electroluminescent illuminating device

Chair

A grater for cutting, slicing and grating food. The grater including a housing having a peripheral wall structure and a base cooperating to define a receptacle. The housing including a skirt portion extending away from the receptacle and being engageable by a user's hand to hold the housing in place on an underlying support surface. The grater includes a blade carried by the housing. The skirt portion receives a user's hand in a grasping position to simultaneously engage the skirt portion and the underlying support surface.

Grater

A pair of locking kitchen tongs for use in handling food items and the like is disclosed. The tongs have a pair of rigid steel arms each having a workpiece engaging or grasping end, a body portion and a pivot end from which the arms are pivotally connected together. The grasping ends are preferably scalloped along one edge, for handling relatively large items, and serrated (i.e., fine-toothed) along another edge, for handling of smaller or fine items. A bulbous, tear-shaped body made from a rigid, non-metal material encapsulates the pivot ends of the two arms as they are pivotally connected together to permit movement between an open position and a closed position. Also within and coupled to the encapsulating body is a sliding locking plate. The locking plate has a body defining a slot which allows the locking plate to slide between a locked position, maintaining the arms in their closed position, and an unlocked position, allowing them free pivoting movement.

Tongs with encapsulated locking mechanism

Tong head

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Tokyo, Japan

Hisato Ogata