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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185356 | Remote monitoring system, terminal management server and terminal management server control program An insulation monitoring system, functioning as a remote monitoring system, comprises a plurality of insulation monitoring terminals, functioning as remote monitoring terminals, for monitoring facilities and a terminal management server controlling the insulation mo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184462 | Power conversion apparatus, power conditioner, and power generation system A first chopper circuit generates a first sequence of square wave voltages having a voltage level that changes to a positive side by chopping a direct current voltage at a system frequency. A second chopper circuit generates a second sequence of square wave voltages... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184461 | Power conditioner and solar photovoltaic power generation system A first circuit generates a first sequence of square wave voltages having a voltage level that changes to a positive side relative to a first reference potential, which is a potential on a negative-electrode side of a direct current power source, from a direct curre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183963 | Electromagnetic relay and method of making the same A electromagnetic relay in which bad electrical contact and failure of operation are prevented even when shavings are produced while an iron core is press-fitted into and mounted on a base. The electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnetic block supported by pre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183313 | Light guide including surface-treated resin A resin according to the present invention includes an ester bond as an essential component and comprises an amine thin membrane on a surface of the resin. This makes it possible to provide (i) a resin having an amine membrane on its surface, (ii) a production metho... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179217 | Electromagnet device A polar electromagnet device has a drive shaft comprising an axis center supported so as to reciprocate in an axis center direction at a center hole of a spool wound with a coil, and a movable iron core attached to a lower end of the drive shaft on the axis center. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169282 | Switch and electronic device A switch and an electronic device maintain a power supply ON state until data processing is completed, and automatically turn OFF the power supply after the data processing is completed. The switch includes a rotation operating body that does not receive an operatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169280 | Relay A relay includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic circuit. The permanent magnet is disposed between a pair of electromagnets. The pair of the electromagnets is formed by winding coils around body portions of spools. Each spool has flanges integrally formed on both ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168940 | Optical transmission module, electronic device and method for manufacturing optical transmission module A light transmission module includes a light transmission path for transmitting light, an optical element including a light emitting and receiving surface for optically coupling with the light transmitted by the light transmission path, and being formed with a light... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167474 | Surface light source device A light guide plate is formed of a light introducing part positioned to face a point light source for confining light and a light guide plate body having a thickness smaller than the thickness of an end of the light introducing part on a point light source side and ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165699 | Programmable controller system A programmable controller system includes a programmable controller apparatus, a remote input and output apparatus connected to the programmable controller apparatus via a field bus and a monitoring apparatus configured to be located on a communication path between ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150895 | Quality improvement system A quality improvement system using an FMEA table of the invention includes a defect data collecting unit to collect defect data about a defect in a manufacturing or inspection process and an FMEA table update unit to update the FMEA table online based on the data co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149155 | Range measuring method, range measuring apparatus, non-contacted IC medium and range measuring system A method of measuring a range from a reader unit to a non-contacted IC medium, includes: transmitting an inquiry signal at a first frequency from the reader unit to the non-contacted IC medium; causing the non-contacted IC medium to perform modulation to modulate th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143981 | Input device and electronic apparatus using same An input device has a housing having an operation hole formed therein, an operation member supported in a slidably moving manner in multi-directions within the operation hole, and at least two magnetic sensors, arranged at a periphery of the operation member, for de... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143820 | Motor control device A motor control device operable to rotate a motor based on an actuated direction of an operation knob of an operation switch in a direction corresponding to the actuated direction has direction selector switches provided corresponding to respective actuated directio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138872 | Contact device A contact device has a first yoke having a substantially U-shape, a second yoke bridged over both ends of the first yoke, a spool wound with a coil disposed between the first yoke and the second yoke, a movable iron core inserted into a center hole of the spool in a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138863 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay has a movable contact arranged at one end of a drive shaft that reciprocates in an axis center direction based on excitation and demagnetization of an electromagnet block, and a pair of adjacently arranged fixed contacts with which the movab... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134312 | Motor control circuit and power window device A motor control circuit includes a manipulation unit, a control unit that drives a motor in a normal rotation direction or a reverse rotation direction, a catch detecting unit that detects a foreign substance caught in the opening and closing body, a first relay cir... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134095 | Switch having a movable contact piece with a J-shaped cross section A switch has a supporting terminal assembled to a base, a movable contact piece, made of a band-shaped conductive material bent to a substantially J-shaped cross section, having a movable contact at one end and having an intermediate portion rotatably supported by a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8123550 | Connector having an operation lever and elastic nails A connector has a base having an opening formed on a front surface side into which a distal end of a flexible print substrate is insertable, and a plurality of insertion holes arranged side by side at a predetermined pitch passing through from the front surface side... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115914 | Multi-optical axis photoelectronic sensor This invention enables a worker, who performs a work for optical axis adjustment, to easily grasp whether adjustment for further increasing the light receiving quantity is possible. In a multi-optical axis photoelectronic sensor, a minimum value of the light receivi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115830 | Image processing apparatus There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of properly setting a photographing condition in consideration of time allowable for each processing; the image processing apparatus capable of properly setting the photographing condition while referring to an... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115594 | Tag communication device, tag moving direction detecting system and tag moving direction detecting method The invention provides a tag communication device, a tag moving direction detecting system and a tag moving direction detecting method able to detect the moving direction of a moving body attaching a RFID tag thereto by simple processing, and able to easily detect t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111407 | Displacement sensor A displacement is accurately measured at high speed to a measurement object having various surface states. In a displacement sensor including a confocal optical system in which an objective lens is moved along an optical axis, light emitted from a laser diode is for... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111117 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnetic block formed by winding a coil around an iron core and a frame shaped card. One end portion of the frame-shaped card is engaged with a movable iron piece that is rotated by being attracted to and separated from a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107685 | Displacement sensor having a display data output A method of displaying sensed displacement is such as to collect single dimension light distribution data using a single dimensional imaging device; transmit the light distribution data to a processor; and display the light distribution data as a line bright wave fo... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107088 | Displacement sensor This invention provides a displacement measurement device, a displacement measurement method, and a thickness measurement device capable of easily ensuring a conjugate relationship between the light source and the diaphragm and capable of accurately measuring the ch... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106893 | Sensing apparatus and method, and program therefor Human contact/non-contact is detected speedily and accurately. A measurement section measures capacitance of each of sites to which a plurality of electrodes are connected where a human body touches, a comparison section compares the capacitance with a threshold val... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100731 | Electric connector, electronic device, and electrically-conductive touch method An electric connector has a contact spring. The contact spring includes a fixed portion that is retained by a housing, an involute portion that is extended from the fixed portion into an inward spiral pattern, a revolute portion that is inverted from the involute po... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099065 | Transmitting apparatus and method Communication with less noise is to be performed. A voltage value control signal functioning as an instruction to change the voltage value supplied from a voltage converting section to an LFI is output from a CPU. A driving section for the LFI outputs the control si... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8092633 | IC tag, pneumatic tire fitted with the same, and method of fitting IC tag Deadhesion of an IC tag inlet during vulcanization molding of tire is suppressed, while preventing adhesion of a portion other than a sticking out portion. An IC tag comprises a sheet-like IC tag inlet 2, a protective cover 3 of an unvulcanized rubber ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090993 | I/O unit and industrial controller This invention enables setting of a diagnosis algorithm of a safety device to be easily carried out. A slice I/O unit stores a plurality of diagnosis algorithms each corresponding to a different safety device in an ASIC, and stores specifying information for specify... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089578 | Surface light source device In a light guide plate 63, a light introducing unit 65 having a thickness larger than that of a light guide plate body 64 is provided at an end of the light guide plate body 64. A point source of light 62 is placed so as to face an... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087834 | Optical transmission module, connecting part, and electronic device having optical transmission module A connection member (21), which electrically connects a package (14) on which an optical element that converts an electric signal to an optical signal or converts an optical signal to an electric signal and at least one end portion including an inciden... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078366 | Seat control device A seat control device has an input unit for performing at least one of an operation to incline and move a first seat, and a drive control unit for at least one of inclining and moving the first seat based on an output of the input unit. The seat control device has a... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078022 | Optical cable module and apparatus using the same An optical cable module is mainly provided with: an optical waveguide (10), a light-receiving element (11) and a supporting substrate (14) at its end portion of the light releasing side. The end portion of the optical waveguide (10) is fi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073138 | Information input device, and electronic apparatus using same An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member (36) which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means (2... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072328 | Tag communication apparatus and tag communication system A first tag communication apparatus is adapted to perform radio communications with a second tag communication apparatus and an RFID tag provided on a moving object. A controller is operable to cause an antenna to transmit first radio waves while changing a first di... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072300 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay has a movable block, hinge portions protruding from both sides of the movable block on an axis, having a wide connection portion and a shaft portion, a base block having common contact terminals disposed thereon, and an electromagnetic block... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071178 | Method of forming metal film and metal wiring pattern, undercoat composition for forming metal film and metal wiring pattern, and metal film A method of forming a metal film and a metal wiring pattern is described a step of forming an organic film by applying and polymerizing an undercoat composition for forming a metal film containing an addition-polymerizable monomer having an acidic group and a polyme... | 12/06/2011 |
