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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180082 | Microphone unit, close-talking voice input device, information processing system, and method of manufacturing microphone unit A microphone unit includes: a housing which has an inner space; a partition member which is provided in the housing and divides the inner space into a first space and a second space, the partition member being at least partially formed of a diaphragm; and an electri... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8155707 | Voice input-output device and communication device A voice input-output device includes a voice input section and a voice output section. The voice input section includes a microphone unit, the microphone unit including a housing that has an inner space, a partition member that is provided in the housing and divides... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8108203 | Translation system, translation program, and bilingual data generation method A translation system including: a bilingual data storage section, a plurality of pieces of first language simple sentence data and a plurality of pieces of second language simple sentence data being stored in the bilingual data storage section while being associated... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8064318 | Optical pickup apparatus with protected collimator lens There is provided an optical pickup apparatus in which the collimator lens cannot be scratched before the support base for the objective lens actuator is fixed, and further dust can hardly come in and be deposited to result in contaminating the collimator lens and t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7950028 | Disk apparatus with improved optical pickup mount The position of an optical pickup with respect to a disk is maintained accurately by preventing the free end portion of a cantilever movable member from being displaced lower than its proper position during the rotation of the disk even if the movable member is heav... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7774803 | Disk loading apparatus There is provided a disk loading apparatus capable of improving the stability in the centering operation at low cost only by changing the shape of the guide groove without adding extra parts or complicated structures. The disk loading apparatus includes a feed rolle... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7738246 | Recording and reproducing apparatus A twist is added to an HDD holder so that the vibration of an HDD unit can be attenuated more reliably not to have any impact on a main body chassis and a VCR unit. There is provided a recording and reproducing apparatus including an HDD unit 40 and a VCR uni... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7728233 | Connection structure of flexible substrate In the case of connecting a flexible substrate to a counterpart substrate by soldering, the area of a dead space on the counterpart substrate due to being covered with the flexible substrate is reduced to reduce the outside dimension of the counterpart substrate. So... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7644421 | Optical pickup An optical pickup for disc device has elastic wires 15 reliably connected with a dumping gel box 6. Guide members 18 are provided integrally with the dumping gel box 6 along bottom edges of side surface 6 as of the dumping gel box ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7607145 | Structure for fixing spindle motor to traverse chassis A fixing structure fixes the position of a spindle motor against a traverse chassis in the direction of the movement of an optical pickup (first direction), and can be adjusted in the direction perpendicular thereto (second direction). In the bottom surface of the s... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7592585 | Optical pickup The soldered connection of an end portion of a cable extending from each element with a main substrate is prevented from being broken. An end portion of a cable t1 extending from a light source element LD that is fixed to a standing frame 2A on a slide... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7577342 | TV system including optical disc apparatus A TV system including an optical disc apparatus capable of preventing a burn-in from appearing on the screen of a display is provided, wherein a timer is started to transmit still image data from the optical disc apparatus to a TV image receiver. When a predetermine... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567659 | Intercom system An intercom system is provided which is capable of allowing an emergency notification to be received securely and properly by a contact person, so that upon reception of a call from an emergency-call mobile phone, the call is automatically forwarded to previously de... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561889 | Alarm apparatus and its method for producing a use prohibition alarm by intercepting and discriminating a mobile signal of communication system prescribed in its mobile phone In a mobile network communication between a base station 2 producing a control signal Sa within an administration area 2-1 and at least one mobile phone 1 having a kind of communication system, an alarm apparatus 3 is used for prod... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561505 | Disk apparatus There is provided a disk apparatus adapted to allow the rotational frequency of an optical disk to reach a predetermined rotational frequency soon for shifting to a reproducing operation, when setting up the rotation of the optical disk, even if the optical disk may... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7559551 | Paper discharge device using elastic material and pressing action for printer A paper discharge device for a printer according to the present invention includes a paper guide 4 that has a paper holding end 41 for pressing paper P against a paper guide surface 3 at a nip at a longitudinally intermediate position A of the p... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7539087 | Optical disk apparatus The present invention provides an optical disk apparatus adapted to irradiate a predetermined track reliably with a laser beam in a seeking operation independently of the individual differences between tracking actuators and therefore optical pickups. A signal adjus... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7527163 | Top cover fixing structure A top cover fixing structure for fixing opposing sidewalls of a top cover to respective opposing sidewalls of a bottom chassis with a single screw for each sidewall, thus reducing the number of parts and thereby reducing the man-hours for assembling, while maintaini... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7479974 | Image forming apparatus There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of easily determining the direction of setting printing paper in a paper feed cartridge with an extremely simple structure. In the image forming apparatus 1 comprising: a paper feed cartridge 2 for p... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7464388 | Optical pickup An optical pickup with improved vibration resistance and heat dissipation is mounted astride a main shaft 101 and a secondary shaft 102. The travel of the optical pickup is adapted to be guided by the main shaft, where a secondary bearing part 3... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7452089 | Variable-shape mirror and optical pickup device therewith The variable-shape mirror is provided with a support base and a minor portion that is disposed to face the support base and that has on a side thereof facing away from the support base a minor surface which is irradiated with a light beam. There are also provided pi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450830 | Optical disc playback apparatus An optical disc playback apparatus having DTS sound incompatible function is provided, which apparatus is capable of automatically playing back the Dolby sound without selecting the Dolby sound in the menu setting, when an optical disc including the DTS content is p... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7400557 | Optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus having a circuit configuration whereby it is possible to prevent tracking drive signals from being offset even when the temperature of a tracking actuator drive circuit is increased. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7352964 | Camera The present invention provides a highly operable easy-to-use camera having a simple configuration without losing a locking function. In a camera comprising: a rotary operation dial 7 to be operated rotationally; a lock arm 5 for locking the rotary oper... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346276 | Camera The present invention provides a highly operable easy-to-use camera having a simple configuration with a few parts without losing a locking function. In a camera comprising: a rotary operation dial 6 to be operated rotationally; a locking function for locking... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339862 | Optical disc driving system and method for determining rotation speed of optical disc A novel optical disc driving system and method for determining the rotation speed of an optical disc are provided, which allow to determine the highest rotation speed optimal for reading out audio and video data in the optical disc in accordance with the environment... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336166 | Remote monitoring system and method using the same The invention provides a remote monitoring system which has a simplified configuration and is capable of remotely monitoring the current state of a person needing care and detecting an abnormality in the person's behavior and then addressing the abnormality, and fur... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7292508 | Optical pick-up device with respective flush screws eccentrically positioned between an actuator base and a magnetic holder, together between a printed-circuit board and a support member An optical pick-up device having cheap and simple structure capable of precisely positioning members assembled upon an actuator base makes use of respective flush screw members for a magnet holder and for a printed-circuit board eccentrically positioned between an a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7270322 | Image forming apparatus A paper feed portion for an image forming apparatus has a simple structure capable of generating a carrying force and preventing double feeding effectively. A paper feed roller 1 and a carrying auxiliary portion 2 are arranged symmetrically with respec... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257824 | Disk player and worm mechanism for same A worm mechanism for a disk player includes a worm gear securely connected to a rotary shaft of a motor, a worm wheel coupled to the worm gear and further connected to driving mechanisms in the disk player and a radial stopper, wherein the worm gear including a boss... | 08/14/2007 |
| 6924848 | Digital/analog television signal receiving set The digital/analog television signal receiving set 10 includes a tuner 12, and the tuner 12 receives television signals of ATSC system and NTSC system. In the case of automatic scanning, a virtual channel table with respect to television signals... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6883877 | Cabinet fixing structure In a cabinet fixing structure, a holder provided in a fixing portion of a rear cabinet is formed with a pair of notches extending along a fitting direction, while a boss provided in a fixing portion of a front cabinet is formed with a pair of rail ribs engaging the ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6866217 | Idler mechanism for magnetic tape device and tape device An idler mechanism for a magnetic tape device. An idler gear is swingingly displaced between first and second positions to selectively transmit rotation to one of a pair of reels. One end of an arm-like swinging member is coupled in a relatively rotatable manner to ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6867523 | Brush motor A brush motor has a magnetic sensor provided for detecting a change in a field magnet occurring in correspondence with a change in a rotational position of a rotor core. ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6421210 | Mechanism for preventing propagation of driving motor noise and vibration on a tape deck, and tape deck having the same A direct driving motor for a videotape deck, in which a motor shaft is directly coupled to the capstan axis, and which is controlled by a PWM control, has a constitution in which a stator core and a deck chassis or a head cylinder are electrically insulat... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6251170 | Electronic dust collector and air conditioner with electronic dust collector An electronic dust collector has a discharge line spaced parallel to a dust collector electrode. Discharge line fixing parts at the ends of the discharge line are bent outward to increase the distance from the dust collector electrode, thereby reducing th... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6171376 | Air conditioner with electronic dust collector An air conditioner has an electronic dust collector incorporated in its casing. A mounting plate is grounded which, in turn, grounds the casing of the air conditioner. This reduces adsorption of dust to the casing, thereby preventing soiling of the casing... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6156099 | Method and apparatus for self-cleaning dust collection electrode of electronic dust collector and electronic dust collector having self-cleaning function and air conditioner with electronic dust collector An electronic dust collector for collecting and removing dust from an air stream uses a corona discharge between a discharge electrode and a dust collection electrode to ionize the dust particles which are then attracted to, and held, on the surface of th... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6034354 | Method for manufacturing heating element having coating layer of catalyst and electronic dust collector using said heating element and air conditioner provided therewith A dust collection electrode with catalyst to be provided on the electronic dust collector is manufactured simply at low cost without using a furnace. To the surface of the metal tube of the sheathed heater a low temperature curing type heat resistant inor... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6020559 | Flat flexible cable A flat flexible cable made from a conductor array including a plurality of longitudinally extending flexible conductors arranged side-by-side in parallel and transversely spaced relationship. A first pair of heat resistant electrically insulating films li... | 02/01/2000 |
