[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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