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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 |
| 6953898 | Anti-abrasive mechanism confining flat flexible cable in position in flatbed image scanner A mechanism for confining a flat flexible cable of an image scanner in position is provided. The flat flexible cable is electrically connected between a circuit board and a carriage and bends differentially with the movement of the carriage relative to the circuit b... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6951159 | Multi-functional trimming apparatus A trimming apparatus for variously trimming a sheet material is disclosed. The trimming apparatus includes a base for placing the sheet material thereon, a rail mounted on the base, a first trimming element for trimming the sheet material in a first manner, a second... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6931974 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus for cutting a sheet material is provided. The cutting apparatus includes a platform; a rail structure secured onto the platform; a sliding member sliding along the rail structure; a cutting member movably engaging with and carried by the sliding ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6909085 | Securing device A securing device includes a sustaining member, a plurality of threaded holes, and a plurality of screws. The sustaining member includes a clamped portion and a securing portion extending from the clamped portion. The clamped portion is interfaced between the photoe... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6831443 | Power adapter assembly for portable electrical device A power adapter assembly for use between a portable electrical device and a power source is disclosed. The power adapter assembly includes a power connecting device having a first joint at one end thereof for electrically connecting to the portable electrical device... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6830088 | Hot laminating apparatus having heat shield A hot laminating apparatus for laminating a sheet material and thin films to be hot laminated has heat shield to keep the working temperature thereof. It includes a transmitting and heating roller disposed at one side of a transmission passage of the hot laminating ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6782935 | Hot laminating apparatus having single-sided transmitting and heating roller A hot laminating apparatus has a single-sided transmitting and heating roller. A heating plate is used instead of a transmitting and heating roller at the opposite side of the transmission passage in order to heat the thin film in contact therewith and cooperate wit... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6581834 | Image processing apparatus having scanner portion and removable card reader portion The image processing apparatus includes a scanner portion and a reader portion. The scanner portion is used for converting an image data of a scanned object into a digital data to be processed by a first computer. The reader portion is detachably installe... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6552272 | Anti-abrasive flat flexible cable An anti-abrasive flat flexible cable for use with an image scanner for electrically connecting a carriage with a circuit board is disclosed. The flat flexible cable includes a metal foil having a first end electrically connected to the circuit board and a... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6075533 | Method of utilizing a three-dimensional mouse in the windows operating systems A method for utilizing a three-dimensional (3-D) mouse in a graphic-user-interface based operating system, such as the WINDOWS operating systems from Microsoft Corporation, is provided. This method allows the 3-D mouse to emulate the functions of the Inte... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6015971 | Optical sensing system using positioning holes for encoding The present invention discloses an optical sensing system which uses a plurality of positioning holes to identify the positions of corresponding encoding holes so that an encoding signal can be accurately generated according to each detected positioning h... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6014130 | Mouse encoding device A mouse encoding device that includes an operating interface for the user to operate on and a sensing device for sensing user input through the operating interface in order to modulate light pulses and generate encoded electrical signals. Through the rota... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5999391 | Outage device and surge protection using the same An outage device and a surge-protection that uses the outage device, wherein the outage device is formed by connecting an overcurrent protection and an overheat protection in series, and packaged as a single device. As soon as either the current flowing t... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5938740 | Programmable peripheral control device for controlling peripherals of a computer system A peripheral control device of a computer system having programmable keys for recording frequently used procedures is disclosed. The computer system comprises a computer, a peripheral device connected to the computer, a peripheral control program for cont... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5928337 | Programmable image processing system including scanner with displaying device for sequential display of control signals when script file execution program starts An image processing system having programmable keys for recording frequently used procedures is disclosed. The scanner comprises a scanning module for scanning an document, a plurality of programmable keys for recording frequently used procedures and a pr... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5883718 | Optical sensing system for detecting displacements of a slidable frame along an elongated plate This invention provides an optical sensing system for detecting displacements of a slidable frame along an elongated plate of the system and generating corresponding position or displacement signals. The optical sensing system comprises a housing, an elon... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5883619 | Computer mouse for scrolling a view of an image A view control system for controlling the display of a view within an image over a computer monitor is disclosed. The system comprises a computer for displaying the view over the monitor and for scrolling the view within the image according to scrolling s... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5736638 | Scanner housing structure The present invention is related to a scanner housing structure having an internal space for installing therein a charge-coupled device (CCD), a lens, a light gate piece and a reflecting mirror, which includes a housing floor, a first positioning device i... | 04/07/1998 |
