Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7940251 | Input device A first planar input unit includes a transparent first substrate and a transparent second substrate that are stacked on each other. On an electrode formation surface of the first substrate, transparent Y-driving electrodes and transparent shielding layers are formed... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939991 | Piezoelectric gas ejecting device A piezoelectric gas jet generator includes a piezoelectric vibrator and upper and lower volume-varying chambers formed above and below the piezoelectric vibrator. In order to effectively use the movement of air supplied with the vibration of the piezoelectric vibrat... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935430 | Bonding structure of substrate and component and method of manufacturing the same A bonding structure and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The bonding structure of a substrate and a component include an electrode formed of metal powder and a resin component on the substrate. A low melting point solder that bonds the component to the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7922918 | Method of manufacturing circuit board used for switch device There is provided a method of manufacturing a circuit board having a first fixed contact and a second fixed contact that extend substantially orthogonal to each other on the same surface, the life span required for the first fixed contact being longer than that requ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920127 | Capacitive coordinate detection device A coordinate detection device mounted on an information terminal apparatus is provided. The coordinate detection device includes a substrate that has a wiring region where leading lines to be connected to detection electrodes are located. The leading lines extend in... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7914065 | Opening and closing device An opening and closing device opens and closes a shielding body that partitions space by the operation of an operating unit in a range between a fully opened position and a fully closed position. The opening and closing device includes a limit setting unit, a contro... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907494 | Hologram information recording medium and hologram information recording/reproducing device To provide a hologram information recording medium and a hologram information recording/reproducing device capable of accurately reproducing data multiplexed on the recording medium irrespective of the influence of the external environment and so forth. In on... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907370 | Tunneling magnetic sensing element having free layer containing CoFe alloy A tunneling magnetic sensing element including an Mg—O insulating barrier which can maintain favorable soft-magnetic properties of a free magnetic layer and can have a high resistance change ratio (ΔR/R) compared to known tunnel magnetic sensing elements is discl... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902839 | Power-control device, electronic apparatus including the same, and method for activating electronic apparatus A sensor unit is configured to have an insulating case covering a mobile phone, a conductive substrate provided on the inner surface of the case, and a sensor electrode fixed on the surface of the conductive substrate. When a part of the human body of a user, such a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893921 | Input device An input device contains a plurality of push switch elements that are connected to a single switch signal line. When a switch signal is detected from the switch signal line, it is determined which push switch element is enabled based on coordinate data obtained from... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889219 | Thermal head A thermal head includes a substrate; a plurality of driver ICs configured to be arranged in a main scanning direction; a heater element configured to include a heat storage layer, a heating resistor layer which is made of a plurality of pairs of effective heating po... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889218 | Head mechanism of thermal printer A head mechanism of a thermal printer includes a platen roller rotatably supported by a housing, and a thermal head arranged at a front end of a head bearing member the front end of which is adapted to be rotatable about a rear end supported by the housing, and arra... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884841 | Line thermal printer A line thermal printer includes a platen roller and a line thermal head including a plurality of heating elements. The heating elements are disposed to face the entire area of a recording sheet in a width direction of the recording sheet and selectively generate hea... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884601 | Magnetic detection device and electronic apparatus equipped with the same A magnet is contained in a display housing and is supported by a slidable operating member. A control housing contains a magnetoresistance effect element. Slidable shifting of the operating member causes an external magnetic field in a positive (+) direction and an ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881836 | Tire state monitoring apparatus There is provided a tire state monitoring apparatus including transponders mounted on a plurality of tires possessed by a vehicle, and ECUs provided on a vehicle body repeatedly transmit address electric waves for acquiring data showing tire states to the transponde... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881024 | Tunnel-type magnetic detecting element and method of manufacturing the same A tunnel-type magnetic detecting element is provided. The tunnel-type magnetic detecting element includes a first ferromagnetic layer; an insulating barrier layer; and a second ferromagnetic layer. The first ferromagnetic layer, the second ferromagnetic layer, or bo... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876277 | Adjustable antenna coil An antenna coil formed on a substrate surface of an insulating substrate has conductor lines forming four sides of a basic loop shape. Furthermore, the antenna coil has corner lines at a corner portion of the loop. For example, by forming trimming lines on the inner... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876190 | Double-tuned circuit A double-tuned circuit includes a primary side tuned circuit having a first air-cored coil and a secondary side tuned circuit having a second air-cored coil. The first air-cored coil and the second air-cored coil are opposed to each other so that one opening end of ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876091 | Magnetic encoder A magnetic encoder is provided, in which a large output voltage (a large amplitude) is obtained so that the magnetic encoder can have a strong resistance to external noise and so that malfunction can be prevented. Each of first to fourth magnetoresistance ele... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876002 | Actuator An actuator in which, when a supporting shaft, where a mirror (control object) is provided, is tilted by receiving an electromagnetic force of a magnetic driving mechanism, small balls of a supporting mechanism move in an axial direction in a space provided between ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868612 | Magnetic sensor module In a magnetic sensor module, using die-bond resin as a joining material, a Z-axis magnetic sensor is mounted onto a substrate having a wire formed on its principal surface. The Z-axis magnetic sensor having electrode pads formed on its bottom surface is tilted by 90... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868611 | Rotary angle detecting device A rotary angle detecting device is provided which includes: a main driving gear configured to rotate while being directly or indirectly connected to a detection target rotating about a predetermined axis; a driven gear configured to rotate while meshing with the mai... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868516 | Electrostatic actuator having electrodes with deformation patterns having larger pitches from the center When a mover during moving is displaced in a direction (X2 direction) perpendicular to a moving direction, between a deformation pattern portion formed in stator-side electrodes of a stator and a deformation pattern portion formed in mover-side electrodes of the mov... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868490 | Actuator When currents are applied to driving coils, electromagnetic forces are generated between the currents and magnetic fluxes passing through gaps, a shaft member is swung in one direction, and a tilt angle of a mirror (controlled object) changes relative to a support c... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630666 | Lens for light communication | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865323 | Calibration program and electronic compass The object of the present invention is to provide a calibration program and an electronic compass that make it possible to calibrate the output of a magnetic sensor with a small amount of computation while a user does not notice the execution of calibration. A calib... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859258 | Magnetic sensor and magnetic sensor module Magnetoresistive effect elements are provided with an element unit having an elongated shape in which an element length L1 is formed to be longer than an element width W1. The element unit has a fixed magnetic layer and a free magnetic layer laminated ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855556 | Magnetic sensor and magnetic sensor module A magnetic sensor including a magnetoresistive effect element has the following structure. Element units each having an element width W1 and an element length L1 perpendicular to the element width W1 and producing a magnetoresistive effect in wh... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853111 | Two-dimensional photonic crystal The present invention provides a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which an absolute photonic band gap (PBG), i.e. a photonic band gap that is effective for both the TE-polarized light and the TM-polarized light within a predetermined wavelength range, is created ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852577 | Method of manufacturing a lens barrel assembly A method of manufacturing a lens barrel assembly includes forming a lens barrel by deep drawing into a cylindrical shape, forming a lens-retaining portion that retains a lens at one of two open sides of the lens barrel, and forming a component-receiving portion that... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852177 | Double-tuning circuit of television tuner In a double-tuning circuit including a primary tuning circuit having a first inductor and a first variable capacitive element connected in parallel and a secondary tuning circuit having a second inductor and a second variable capacitive element connected in parallel... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7841530 | Read head for reading coded data by optical scanning A read head includes a light emitting member outputting a predetermined laser beam to a data recording portion, a light receiving member receiving a return beam reflected by the data recording portion and detecting data included in the return beam, a movable section... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839582 | Optical element An optical element includes a transparent substrate, a first light-blocking film attached to at least one surface of the transparent substrate and having a first circular opening, and a first lens portion disposed on the at least one surface of the transparent subst... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834860 | Input device An electrostatic capacitance type input device includes a plurality of electrodes, and detects coordinate position on the basis of a variation in an electrostatic capacitance between the electrodes. The device corrects an erroneous operation in which the device is n... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7834619 | Magnetic detection device A magnetic detection device includes a sensor unit including a sensor pattern having a plurality of magnetoresistance effect films whose ends in the length direction thereof are coupled via return portions, and electrode units formed at both ends of the sensor patte... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7821506 | Input device An input device is provided. The input device includes a first position detection unit having a detection section which detects the absolute position of a predetermined operation tool in a predetermined region. A second position detection unit has a detection sectio... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817749 | Digital signal receiver including wideband tunable antenna device A digital tuner unit receiving a digital signal in a reception channel having a predetermined bandwidth is connected at a subsequent stage of an antenna device containing radiation conductors and varactor diodes. A digital reception signal output from the digital tu... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7811010 | Camera apparatus with positioning tube and mounting base A small-diameter positioning tube is formed in an external wall surface of a housing (upper case and lower case) that is a constructional element of a camera body via a stepped part. When the camera body is attached to a mounting base using screws, a positioning tub... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810701 | Method for bonding metallic terminals by using elastic contact A connection electrode that is formed of solder on an electronic component side and a tip portion of an elastic contact each other at a contact portion. Regarding the elastic contact, a resistive layer is formed in the tip portion, and the tip portion is placed in a... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808549 | Electronic device An electronic device is provided that has excellent portability because it can be folded to a compact size at coupling means. In addition, a first display portion of a first display unit and a second display portion of a second display unit can form a single, large-... | 10/05/2010 |
