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Patent No. 6612440

Banana Protective Device

A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully.

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Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.


Location: Chiba, JP
No. of patents: 501

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8183907Detection circuit and sensor device
Provided is a detection circuit for monitoring a power supply voltage with a circuit configuration in which power consumption is reduced, and a sensor device including the detection circuit. A detection circuit (100) detects an input signal input thereto to o...
05/22/2012
8179729Memory circuit and voltage detection circuit including the same
Provided are a memory circuit having a small circuit scale and a voltage detection circuit including the memory circuit. An NMOS transistor (21) is in an off state during loading and writing and is in an on state during reading. An NMOS transistor (22)...
05/15/2012
8179099Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device
Provided is a battery state monitoring circuit including a control circuit that applies, to a gate of a signal output transistor provided at a terminal for transmitting an overcharge detection signal, a potential at which the signal output transistor is turned off a...
05/15/2012
8179021Piezoelectric resonator with control film to increase a degree of vacuum inside the package
Provided are: a piezoelectric oscillation piece which has a pair of oscillation arms disposed in parallel with each other with base ends of the oscillation arms fixed to a base of the piezoelectric oscillation piece and with weight metal films formed at the tips of ...
05/15/2012
8176606Method of fabricating a piezoelectric vibrating piece
To carry out frequency adjustment easily, accurately and efficiently and achieve low cost formation and promotion of maintenance performance without being influenced by a size of a piezoelectric vibrating piece, there is provided a method of fabricating a piezoelect...
05/15/2012
8174309Reference voltage circuit
Provided is a reference voltage circuit in which a temperature characteristic of a reference voltage is excellent and a circuit scale is small. In the reference voltage circuit, for example, a temperature correction circuit separated from the reference voltage circu...
05/08/2012
8168494Trench MOS transistor and method of manufacturing the same
Trench portions (10) are formed in a well (5) in order to provide unevenness in the well (5). A gate electrode (2) is formed via an insulating film (7) on the upper surface and inside of the trench portions (10). A source re...
05/01/2012
8166855Thin section preparing apparatus and thin section preparing method
A thin section preparing apparatus prepares a thin section from an embedded block having a biological sample embedded and carries the thin section. The thin section preparing apparatus includes a cutter, an approaching and separating mechanism, a carrying mechanism,...
05/01/2012
8154575Heating resistor element, manufacturing method for the same, thermal head, and printer
Provided is a heating resistor element, including: an insulating substrate (9); a heat accumulating layer (10) bonded to a surface of the insulating substrate (9); and a heating resistor (11) provided on the heat accumulating layer (10...
04/10/2012
8148875Piezoelectric vibrator, manufacturing method of piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic device, and radio-controlled timepiece
A piezoelectric vibrator which can be manufactured efficiently and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The piezoelectric vibrator includes: a tuning-fork-type piezoelectric vibrating piece which has a pair of vibration arm portions, excitation electrodes fo...
04/03/2012
8144175Heating resistor element, manufacturing method for the same, thermal head, and printer
Provided is a heating resistor element (1), including: an insulating substrate (9); a heat accumulating layer (10) bonded to a surface of the insulating substrate (9); and a heating resistor (11) provided on the heat accumulating l...
03/27/2012
8138719Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device
Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device which are capable of inhibiting discharge without enabling an overdischarge cell balance function when an overcurrent detection circuit detects a discharge overcurrent, without the need for an addi...
03/20/2012
D654815Wrist watch case with strap
02/28/2012
D654814Wrist watch case with strap
02/28/2012
8115539Operational amplifier
Provided is an operational amplifier capable of correcting an offset voltage of an element to be connected to an input terminal. The operational amplifier includes a main amplifier and an offset correction amplifier, which include input terminals connected in common...
02/14/2012
8115422LED drive circuit
Provided is an LED drive circuit capable of using a switching regulator IC having low breakdown voltage even when a power supply voltage is high. The LED drive circuit includes a voltage clamp circuit for clamping the power supply voltage to an operating voltage of ...
02/14/2012
8110146Embedded block humidifier, automatic thin slice manufacturing device, and automatic thin slice specimen manufacturing apparatus
An embedded block is capable of being humidified in a short time without influencing a surface temperature of the embedded block as much as possible. An embedded block humidifier for humidifying an embedded block having a biological specimen embedded in an embedding...
02/07/2012
D653632Quartz crystal
02/07/2012
D653631Quartz crystal
02/07/2012
8106646Sensor circuit
Provided is a sensor circuit that is small in circuit scale, but is capable of temperature compensation. A reference voltage circuit (BL1) which compensates a temperature includes only a voltage divider circuit, and hence the sensor circuit is small in circui...
01/31/2012
8104154Method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrating piece
To efficiently fabricate a high quality piezoelectric vibrating piece regardless of an accuracy of an outer shape of a wafer, there is provided a method of fabricating a plurality of piezoelectric vibrating pieces at a time utilizing a wafer S, the method including ...
01/31/2012
8102453Photoelectric converter
Provided is a photoelectric converter capable of performing high-speed image reading and resolution switching at the same time. The photoelectric converter includes a plurality of common read lines, and thus parallel output is produced, which enables image reading a...
01/24/2012
8097177Piezoelectric vibrating reed, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic device, radio—controlled clock, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric vibrating reed
Providing a piezoelectric vibrating reed which is capable of decreasing variation in the amount of etching residue as much as possible and suppressing influence of vibration loss on the vibration characteristics as much as possible. A piezoelectric vibrating reed
01/17/2012
8089202Piezoelectric vibrating reed, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic device, radio-controlled clock, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric vibrating reed
Providing a piezoelectric vibrating reed which has low disconnection possibility and ensures reliability for stable operation without requiring strict exposure position accuracy. A piezoelectric vibrating reed 1 including: a piezoelectric plate which includes...
01/03/2012
8087334Sectioning instrument
A sectioning instrument fabricates a section having an accurate and uniform thickness to be carried to a next step automatically without deforming a surface of an embedded block and while observing the surface of the embedded block. The sectioning instrument include...
01/03/2012
8087135Method of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator
A piezoelectric vibrator manufacturing method includes a cavity forming step for forming depressions for a cavities on at least one of two wafers; a bonding electrode film forming step for forming bonding electrode films on bonded surfaces of the both wafers; a moun...
01/03/2012
8074547Automatic slicing apparatus
An automatic slicing apparatus reduces the likelihood of failure to make a sliced piece specimen even if continuously operated. The apparatus, on the basis of an exchange command signal, detaches a sample block attached to a cutting base and attaches a new sample bl...
12/13/2011
8072198Voltage regulator
To provide a voltage regulator having improved response characteristics in case of overshoot. The voltage regulator includes: a transistor (303) for detecting an overshoot at an output terminal; and a current mirror circuit connected to the transistor (303...
12/06/2011
8072189Charge and discharge control circuit and battery device
Provided are a charge and discharge control circuit capable of reducing a circuit size, and a battery device. In a charger reverse connection detection circuit (116), a comparison circuit or the like is not used, and two NMOS transistors are used, whereby cir...
12/06/2011
8069543Method of manufacturing piezoelectric vibrator, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic device, and radio clock
There is provided a piezoelectric vibrator 1 that includes a base substrate 2, a lid substrate 3, a piezoelectric vibrating reed 4, a pair of external electrodes 38 and 39, a pair of through electrodes 32 and 33
12/06/2011
8063675Delay circuit including first and second internal delay circuits and a selection switch
Provided is a delay circuit that has a delay time period independent of a power supply voltage and has the equal delay time period between a case of a change in input signal from Low to High and a case of a change in input signal from High to Low. The delay time per...
11/22/2011
8063545Wafer, wafer polishing apparatus, wafer polishing method, method of fabricating piezoelectric vibrator, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic apparatus and radiowave timepiece
To provide a wafer preventing a breakage of a crack or a chip off from being brought about in a polishing step and a polishing apparatus and a polishing method of polishing the wafer, there is provided a wafer in a shape of a plate substantially in an angular rectan...
11/22/2011
8053957Piezoelectric vibrating piece having arm ends with excitation electrodes of opposite polarity and piezoelectric vibrator, oscillatory, electronic apparatus and radio wave timepiece having same
To achieve small-sized formation by shortening a total length after ensuring a length of a base portion capable of sufficiently reducing vibration leakage, there is provided a piezoelectric vibrating piece 2 including a piezoelectric plate 10 including...
11/08/2011
D648288Quartz crystal
11/08/2011
D647071Quartz crystal
10/18/2011
8035715Image sensor
Provided is an image sensor that may reduce the number of external terminals for downsizing of a chip, generate a write signal (RE) of a Y address with one pulse, and employ an external circuit having the same configuration as that of the conventional example. The i...
10/11/2011
8032997Manufacturing method for a piezoelectric vibrator
A process of manufacturing a piezoelectric vibrator comprises a base substrate; a lid substrate in which cavity recesses are formed and which is bonded to the base substrate in such a state that the recesses face the base substrate; a piezoelectric vibration member ...
10/11/2011
D646656Quartz crystal
10/11/2011
D646655Quartz crystal
10/11/2011
D646654Quartz crystal
10/11/2011
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