...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184259 | Decorative plate for casing and casing A decorative plate for a casing is attached to a casing, and utilized. The decorative plate is configured by a plate-shaped transparent base member, a color half mirror layer, placed on the lower face of the transparent base member, that is made of a metal thin film... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8160659 | Portable device including a transparent cover usable as an electrostatic capacity switch electrode and an antenna A portable device including a transparent cover (1) having a light transmittance of not less than 50%. A circuit pattern of a conductive material is provided in the cover between two sheet-like transparent substrates (5a). A device main body ( | 04/17/2012 |
| 8119048 | Housing case, method for manufacturing housing case, and glass insert molding die used in same A housing case for a small electric device and communication device includes a flat plate having a dimension substantially the same as that of the front portion of the housing case and comprising at least a glass plate, and a resin frame integrated with the flat pla... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113808 | Two-color molding equipment and two-color molded product A two-color molding equipment for shaping a two-color molded product by placing a film in primary mold tool configured by a fixed mold and a movable mold, injecting a resin into a first cavity formed by closing the molds to shape a primary molded piece, shifting the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094134 | Touch panel having press detection function and pressure sensitive sensor for the touch panel An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pre... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077264 | Touch input function-equipped protection panel for electronic device display window A touch input function-equipped protection panel for an electronic device display window which can suppress deterioration of electric properties and appearance quality in a lead wire connection part, includes a touch panel having a flexible upper electrode plate and... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8057719 | Housing case, method for manufacturing housing case, and glass insert molding die used in same A housing case for a small electric device and communication device includes a flat plate having a dimension substantially the same as that of the front portion of the housing case and comprising at least a glass plate, and a resin frame integrated with the flat pla... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8018645 | Display-protective plate for electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus therewith A display-protective plate for an electronic apparatus, is attached to a case 7 of an electronic apparatus 1 to be used, and protects a display surface of a display 4 that is attached so as to be exposed from the case 7 of the electronic ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8003900 | Mesh sheet and housing for electronic devices A mesh sheet of the present invention is a mesh sheet in which a metal mesh comprising fine bands is laminated on a surface of a base substrate, the mesh sheet being used and adhered along a surface of an arbitrary member having a curved surface portion. The metal m... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7922952 | Simultaneous injection-molding and decorating method In the simultaneous molding and decorating method for forming an image onto the surface of a resin molding simultaneously with resin molding by holding a decoration sheet on which the image is rotary printed in a die, such a decoration sheet as having a predetermine... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920225 | Electronic apparatus with protective panel An electronic apparatus with a protective panel, includes a display device 3 having a display section 3A, an enclosure 2 having a display window 2A which is open in one direction and mounts therein the display device 3 so as to exp... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911455 | Touch panel unit There are provided a design sheet attached to the surface of an upper electrode film of a touch panel such that the design sheet is protruded at its periphery from the touch panel and a touch-panel-unit casing which is integrally molded with the design sheet such th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7847877 | Panel A design panel attached to a casing for an electronic equipment, which is constructed so that a display device whose display surface goes black at standby is placeable inside the casing, and which is formed with an opening that makes the display surface visible, the... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847753 | Transparent antenna for display, translucent member for display with an antenna and housing component with an antenna A transparent antenna for a display, for example, a portable telephone, the transparent antenna performing good transmission and reception, not bulky, and not impairing design of an apparatus. The transparent antenna for a display has an insulating sheet-like transp... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7830367 | Touch panel and protective panel for display window of electronic device using the same A touch panel is capable of obtaining a stable connection resistance without requiring fitting accuracy at the time of the connection to an external terminal, and a protective panel for a display window of an electronic device using the same. The analog type touch p... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7710400 | Touch panel having a transparent insulation film resistant to peel-off A touch panel having a film/glass structure includes an upper electrode member including a transparent insulation film having upwardly-inclined end surfaces at each entire peripheral side. A touch panel having a film/film structure includes an upper electrode member... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7656357 | Transparent antenna for vehicle and vehicle glass with antenna A transparent antenna for a vehicle has a transmittance property providing good visibility without worsening the design and is capable of realizing low resistance. The transparent antenna has an insulating sheet-like transparent base body (1a) and an a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7601289 | Two-sides in-mold decoration molding die and method of manufacturing a molded product with such molding die The two-sides in-mold decoration molding die includes a first mold on which the first decoration film is lengthwise movably disposed, and a second mold on which the second decoration film is laterally movably disposed and provided with a sprue and a runner, and a pr... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7589798 | Touch panel having upper electrode plate including electrode, polarizing plate, quarter wave plate and heat-resistant transparent resin plate An upper electrode plate has a 0.15 to 0.8 mm thick optically isotropic heat-resistant transparent resin plate having a glass transition temperature characteristic of not less than 150° C. The heat-resistant transparent resin plate is laminated directly or indirect... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7582246 | Transferring and molding method and transferring and molding apparatus Provided is a transferring and molding method capable of forming a molded article on which a pattern is transferred in a prescribed position by automatically correcting a shift when there is produced a molded article on which the pattern is transferred with a shift.... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7554624 | Electronic device with protection panel, protection panel, and method of fabricating protection panels A protection panel for an electronic device display window provided with a protection panel main body is composed of transparent resin and has a decoration layer having a transparent window section, and a transparent lower electrode formed on an upper surface of the... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7499038 | Thin-frame touch panel In an analog resistive-film touch panel, a lower electrode member has a transparent electrode on a top face of a transparent insulating base member, a pair of bus bars on parallel sides of the transparent electrode, and routing circuits connected to the bus bars for... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7458793 | Mold for in-mold decoration A mold for in-mold decorating that includes a stationary mold member and a movable mold member through which a decorating film can be passed. At least one of the mold members includes a cavity-forming block with molding cavity configured to receive a design pattern ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7413794 | Transfer material A transfer member includes a substrate sheet, a mold release layer of a belt-shaped pattern laminated on the substrate sheet, an ionizing radiation curing layer laminated all over a surface on mold release layer, a patterned layer laminated all over a surface or par... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7268770 | Liquid crystal display of touch input type, and method of manufacture A touch-input type liquid crystal display device comprises an upper and lower polarizer, a transparent touch panel disposed between the polarizers and a liquid crystal display. The transparent touch panel comprises upper and lower optical phase difference films, a m... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7261532 | In-mold decoration apparatus and horizontal direction decorating sheet feeding machine In an in-mold decoration apparatus, with decorating sheets pinched between a fixed mold half and a movable mold half, molten resin is injected into the mold so that the decorating sheets are respectively bonded to surfaces of a resin molded article. The in-mold deco... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7237937 | Touch panel assembly In a touch panel assembly, the thickness of a touch panel is successfully reduced by using a touch panel 10 provided with no reinforcement member. A housing frame 50 that supports the components of a front light unit 20 in an integral manner is ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7071926 | Touch panel capable of wide-area inputting A wide range-inputable touch panel is provided which allows a larger amount of input operations to be made with one display operation on a screen, in which at least one bus bar and a transparent electrode on a conductive panel fronting the bus bar though spaces form... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070849 | Anti-reflective formed article and method for preparation thereof, and mold for anti-reflective formed article An anti-reflection molding has a transparent substrate and an anti-reflection layer provided at least on a surface of the transparent substrate, an interface of a transparent window on which the anti-reflection layer is formed has an average surface roughness Ra of ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7060320 | Transparent conductive film for transparent touch panel, transparent touch panel using transparent conductive film, and method of manufacturing transparent conductive film In a transparent conductive film for use in a transparent touch panel in which a lower electrode and an upper electrode are stacked so as to be spaced from each other by spacers, the transparent conductive film being provided on an electrode substrate of at least on... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6866938 | Foil-detecting sheet and method of producing a foil-decorated resin article using the same A foil-decorating sheet (4) comprised by a laminated film of two or more kinds of films which is to be set in an injection mold (5, 6) for being integrally bonded to a surface of a molding resin (10), wherein after a foil-decorating is made, a b... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6847355 | High-reliability touch panel In the touch panel of an analog resistance film form having independent connection electrodes to be connected via a conductive adhesive (5) to lead electrodes (13,14) set to an opposing panel, the conductive adhesive is made up of a main conductive fil... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6814452 | Touch-panel with light shielding peripheral part Provided is a touch panel, which has a light-shielding effect in its peripheral portion and is able to improve the visibility of its screen at low cost and also cope with the thickness reduction of a product provided with an LCD with a touch panel. In an analog resi... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6752946 | Cellular phone top cover and method of manufacturing the cellular phone top cover A cellular phone top cover includes a foil-decorating film (1) including an uppermost layer comprised of a transparent base film (3) and, laminated thereon, a symbol layer (6) for displaying characters or symbols and a colored layer (7) d... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6733954 | Semiconductor module substrate sheet, semiconductor module substrate sheet fabricating method and semiconductor module Through holes are formed at four peripheral edges of a plurality of semiconductor chip placement regions of an insulating substrate, except for coupling portions partially arranged thereat. A substrate sheet for semiconductor module is used in which connecting porti... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6713161 | Light-transmitting electromagnetic shielding material and method for manufacturing the same A light-transmitting electromagnetic wave-shielding material includes a hydrophilic transparent resin layer laminated on a transparent substrate. An electroless plating layer is laminated on the hydrophilic transparent resin layer in a pattern, and a black pattern s... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6686824 | Toroidal printed coil A toroidal printed coil includes a plurality of annular holes (2) and a plurality of center holes (3) surrounded by the annular holes (2) in an insulating substrate (1). A plurality of annular juts (4), each comprising a portion surrounded by the annular ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6652983 | Sheet for in-mold decorating and in-mold decorated article An in-mold decorating sheet is set in an injection mold and, after clamping the mold, molten molding resin is injected into the mold and allowed to cool and solidified, and part of the in-mold decorating sheet is integrally bonding to a surface of the mol... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6573028 | Base sheet for semiconductor module, method for manufacturing base sheet for semiconductor module, and semiconductor module Through holes are formed at four peripheral edges of a plurality of semiconductor chip placement regions of an insulating substrate, except for coupling portions partially arranged thereat. A substrate sheet for semiconductor module is used in which conne... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6559902 | Touch panel An upper electrode sheet having a transparent electrode formed on a transparent film of polyethylene terephthalate and a lower electrode sheet having a transparent electrode formed on a transparent film of polycarbonate are arranged opposite to each other... | 05/06/2003 |