Tokai Corporation

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Tsutomu Shike

Isao Inoue

Toshihiko Eguchi

Masaki Saito

Hideo Mifune

Kenji Yamazaki

Masato Seki

Tomio Nitta

Yosimitu Kaga

Nobuo Yamazaki

Kazuhiko Suganuma

Ready-to-heat canned goods

Igniting device

A method for producing a filter for use in a fuel flow rate regulating mechanism has a first step of providing a sheet of microcellular polymer material having upper and lower surfaces, each of the surfaces being fused to prevent fuel flow through the surfaces. The sheet of microcellular polymer material also has formations of continuous air bubbles between the upper and lower surfaces. The method for producing a filter has a second step of heat pressing in the direction of thickness to rearrange certain of the air bubbles, redefining same as independent, nonconnected air bubbles. The method for producing a filter has a third step of transversely punching from the sheet a filter element of prescribed configurations.

Method of producing a microcell polymer filter for use in flow rate

Gas lighter

Plural-nibbed ball-point pen

A flow regulating mechanism for a gas emitting device featuring a microcellular polymer filter having connected, continuous bubbles through which fuel passes and independent air bubbles which expand with increases in temperature compressing and thereby restricting the flow of fuel through the connected, continuous bubbles.

Flow rate regulating mechanism for gas lighters and similar devices and

A gas lighter with a safety device has a lock member which is able to linearly move between a locking position where it prevents depression of a valve lever and a releasing position where it allows depression of the valve lever and is urged to the locking position. A holding member hold the lock member in the releasing position in response to movement of the lock member to the releasing position, and a releasing member releases the lock member from the holding member in response to depression of the valve lever, thereby permitting the lock member to move away from the releasing position. A temporary holding member temporarily holds the lock member in the releasing position or the vicinity thereof until the valve lever returns to the original position.

Gas lighter with safety device

A piezoelectric gas lighter has an actuator cap which is mounted on an upper part of a lighter body to be movable up and down between upper and lower positions relative to the lighter body and is urged to the upper position. The actuator cap is depressed toward the lower position to discharge fuel gas stored in a reservoir provided in the lighter body and to actuate an ignition mechanism to ignite the fuel gas. A safety device for the piezoelectric gas lighter includes a projection which is provided on said upper part of the lighter body, a stopper member which is mounted on said actuator cap so that it can be movable relative to the actuator cap along a linear path between a locking position where a part of the stopper member is aligned with the projection and interferes with the projection to prevent downward movement of the actuator cap and a releasing position where said part of the stopper member is out of alignment with said projection and permits downward movement of the actuator cap and so that the actuator cap can be depressed by pushing downward the stopper member, and a spring which urges the stopper member to the locking position. The projection has a vertical surface which extends downward facing toward the releasing position of the stopper member and the vertical surface holds the stopper member in the releasing position when the actuator cap is below said upper position.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Tsutomu Shike