As of December 31, 2009, the Company had 11 subsidiaries and affiliated companies in overseas countries.links of london charms based Taiho Kogyo Co. Ltd filed patent application for hemispherical shoe and manufacturing method therefore. The inventors are Links of London Four Leaf Clover Charm Kanemitsu and Masaharu Hatta. Taiho Kogyo Co. Ltd filed the patent application Jan. 15, 2007. The patent application number is Links of London Frog Charm A. The international classification number is B23K26/00. According to the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, "A hemispherical shoe and a method of manufacturing the hemispherical shoe. Links of London G Charm hemispherical shoe formed of a projected hemispherical surface and a flat-shaped end surface in a roughly hemispherical shape and comprises, on the hemispherical surface, a slidable contact pan coming into slidable contact with a hemispherical recessed part and non-slidable contact surfaces not coming into slidable contact with the recessed part In the method of manufacturing the hemispherical shoe, after a hemispherical raw material having a hemispherical surface along the recessed part is molded, the surface of the hemispherical surface which forms a portion to be the slidable contact surface is hardened, the hardened portion is swelled more than the original surface of the hemispherical surface to form the slidable contact surface on the surface of the swelled part and to leave the other portions of the hemispherical surface in non-slidable contact surfaces.
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