[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 32 (Thursday, February 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6039-6040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3447]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993; Open Devicenet Vendor Association, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on June 21, 1995, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Open DeviceNet Vendor
Association, Inc., Joint Venture has filed written notification
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances.
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are:
ABBA Drives, Inc., New Berlin, WI; ABB Robotics Products AB, Vasteras,
SWEDEN; Act' 1 SA, Braine L'Alleud, BELGIUM; AEG Schneider Automation,
Inc., North Andover, MA; Allen-Bradley Company, Inc., Milwaukee, WI;
Rockwell International Corp., Seal Beach, CA; American Precision
Industries, Inc., Amherst, NY; BMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA;
Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; ASCO Pneumatic Controls,
Charlotte, NC; Automatic Switch Co., Florham Park, NJ; AxNet, Ecully,
FRANCE; Balluff, Inc., Florence, KY; Geohard Balluff BmbH & Co.,
Neuhausen/Filder, GERMANY; Banner Engineering Corporation, Minneapolis,
MN; Belden Wire & Cable, Richmond, IN; Berk-Tek Inc., New Holland, PA;
Alcatel NA Cable Systems, Inc., Hickory, NC; Brooks Instrument Company,
Inc., Hatfield, PA; Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Incorporated,
Cincinnati, OH; Codan Pty. Ltd., Newton, AUSTRALIA; Communications & ID
Systems, Milwaukee, WI; Contemporary Control Systems, Inc., Downers
Gove, IL; Control Technology, Inc., Knoxville, TN; Crouse-Hinds
Division of Cooper Industries, Houston, TX; Crouzet Corporation,
Carrollton, TX; Crouzet Automatismes, S.A., Valence, FRANCE; Cutler
Hammer, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA; Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH; Daniel
Woodhead Co., Northbrook, IL; Woodhead Industries, Inc., Buffalo Grove,
IL; Datalogic, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA, Datalogic, SpA, Bologna, ITALY;
Dearborn Group, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI; Digital Electronics
Corporation, Osaka, JAPAN; D.I.P. Inc., Moreno Valley, CA; ECT
International, Inc., Brookfield, WI; EMS Inc., Cincinnati, OH;
Eurotherm PLC, Horsham, UK; Event Technologies, Inc., Hales Corners,
WI; Festo Corporation, Hauppauge, NY; Festo KG, Esslingen, GERMANY;
Furnas Electric Co., Batavia, IL; Grayhill Incorporated, LaGrange, IL;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; Hohner Shaft Encorder Corp., Beamsville,
CANADA; Huron Net Works, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Industrial Devices
Corporation, Novato, CA; Institut Fuer Elektrische Messtech/und
Grundlagen Der Elektrotech Nik, Nindernechsen, GERMANY; Lumberg, Inc.,
Richmond, VA; Karl Lumberg GmbH & Co., Schalksmuehle, GERMANY; Lutze,
Inc., Charlotte, NC; MAC Valves Europe, Inc., Wixom, MI; MagneTek, New
Berlin, WI; Mannesmann Rexroth Pnuematics Division, Bethlehem, PA;
Mannesmann AG, Dusseldorf, GERMANY; Micro Mo Electronics, Clearwater,
FL; Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc., Cypress, CA; Mitsubishi
Electric Corp. Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; MKS Instruments, Inc., Andover, MA;
Moog Inc., East Aurora, NY; Namco Controls Corp; Highland Heights, OH;
Acme Cleveland Corporation, Pepper Pike, OH; Nematron Corporation, Ann
Arbor, MI; NSI, Cran-Gevrier, FRANCE; Numatics, Incorporated, Highland,
MI; Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JAPAN, ONLINE Development, Inc.,
Knoxville, TN; Optimised Control Inc., Tampa, FL; Optimised Control,
Ltd, Bristol, ENGLAND; ORMEC Systems Corporation, Rochester, NY;
Pacific Scientific Company, Charlestown, MA; Parker Hannifin Corp.,
Cleveland, OH; Patriot Sensors & Controls Corp., Clawson, MI; Controls
Holding Company, Clawson, MI; PDL Electronics Ltd., Napier, NEW
ZEALAND; PDL Holdings, Ltd., Christchurch, NZ; Peperl & Fuchs,
Twinsburg, OH; Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH, Mannheim, GERMANY; Phoenix
Contact, Inc., Harrisburg, PA; Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co., Blomberg,
GERMANY; Pro-Log Corp., Monterey, CA; RadiSys Corporation, Beaverton,
OR; Reliance Electronic Industrial Company, Mayfield Hts., OH; Indramat
Division of Rexroth Corporation, Bethlehem, PA; Ross Controls
International, Inc., Troy, MI; S-S Technologies, Inc., Kitchener,
CANADA; Schrader-Bellows, Inc., Cuyahoga Falls, OH; Sharp Manufacturing
Systems Corporation, Yamato-Koriyama City, JAPAN; Showa Electric Wires
& Cable Co., Ltd., Miyage-
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Prf, JAPAN; SMC Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Socapel, SA, Penthaz Vaud,
SWITZERLAND; Softing GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; Square D Company, Palatine,
IL; Groupe Schneider, Boulogne Billancourt, FRANCE; Toshiba
International Corporation, Houston, TX; Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo,
JAPAN; TURCK, Inc., Plymouth, MN; Uticor Technology, Inc., Cettendorf,
IA; Vector Informatik GmbH, Ditzngen, GERMANY; Wago Corporation, Brown
Deer, WI; Wago Knotakttechnik GmbH, Miden, GERMANY; Whedco, Inc., Ann
Arbor, MI; Wonderwear Corporation, Irvine, CA; Yaskawa Electric Ameica,
Inc., Northbrook, IL; and Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Kitakyushu,
JAPAN.
The purpose of this venture is to promote the adoption of a viable
industrial automation communication network standard based on the
DeviceNet protocol to increase the range of options for builders of
such industrial equipment systems and to produce products, processes or
services consisting of or relating to the specification of the
DeviceNet protocol and products or services designed to distinguish
items that conform to such specification from those that do not.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-3447 Filed 2-14-96; 8:45 am]
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