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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009144 | Portable terminal unit The opening and closing state detecting section to detect an opening and closing state of the first and the second housing is provided. In the case where an opening motion is conducted after a specific item is selected from the selecting screen, which is displayed o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7929979 | Wireless communication method, wireless communication system, and mode switching method In a mobile terminal (10), a position information which is received by a position information detecting section (12) is transmitted to a base station. A determining section (34) in the base station determines whether or not the received position... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7891770 | Separate light-emitting ink cartridge A separate light-emitting ink cartridge including an ink container, an ink supply port, a shelf, a chip, a first joint portion, a second joint portion, a support component, and a light display portion is provided. The ink container and the shelf are independent work... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7865219 | Portable terminal A portable terminal has a first housing having at least a display unit, a second housing having at least a main input unit, and connected openably and closably to the first housing, and an auxiliary input unit arranged on a surface other than mutually facing surface... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7747287 | Mobile telephone A mobile telephone using the LCD for the display thereof wherein the address data bus connected to the CPU comprises two separate data buses; the one exclusively provided for the LCD, and the other one for the parts other than the LCD, and in the case of accesses ot... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742789 | Mobile telephone A mobile telephone using a LCD for the display thereof wherein the address data bus connected to the CPU comprises two separate data buses; the one exclusively provided for the LCD, and the other one for the parts other than the LCD, and in the case of accesses othe... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7609322 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus having an opening of a front casing caulked with a pressure member. An O-ring is used for caulking the front casing and is designed to have an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the first lens, and an outer diameter smaller than th... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7593381 | Mobile communication terminal, and antenna array directivity-pattern-controlling method In a mobile communication terminal for performing wireless communication by receiving wireless signals according to CDMA communication system containing pilot signals by an antenna array containing a plurality of antenna elements (1-1 to 1-N), d... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7589785 | Flash unit, camera device, and mobile terminal A flash unit having a light emitting element, and a light condensing plate. The light condensing plate is provided with a surface on which a dimmed light-dispersing print is disposed near the light emitting element for equalizing intensity of the light emitted from ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7583309 | Imaging device package camera module and camera module producing method An IR cut-filter is fitted into a support portion within the optical-system containing portion of a ceramic board and a lens 11 is mounted in the ceramic board by screwing the lens. In an imaging-device containing portion, an imaging device with a ligh... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7046821 | Image detection processor An image detection processor of the present invention enhances the processing speed of the calculation of the center of gravity or the like of a target with a simple constitution. The image detection processor arranges a plurality of image detection processing eleme... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7526082 | Portable terminal and opening or closing method therefor A portable terminal has one casing with a display unit and a speaker coupled to another casing with an operation unit and a microphone. The casings connect via a coupling unit and are capable of opening or closing by means of the coupling unit. The face of the casin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7483720 | Portable terminal with display A portable terminal includes a first housing having at least a display unit and a second housing having at least an input unit. The housings are openably and closably connected together so that the display unit is visible to the user in at least a closed state. The ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7418249 | Radio apparatus A demodulator demodulates a received signal. A decoder performs inverse-spread spectrum processing on a demodulated signal. The decoder calculates a CIR value and outputs it to a CPU and a predictor. The predictor derives a next CIR value of the next reception time ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409059 | Portable terminal unit To provide a superposition type portable terminal unit in which functions other than opening and closing functions are added to opening and closing operations thereby to improve the operating performance of the portable terminal unit. In a superposition type portabl... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7388616 | Attachment structure of camera module and portable terminal device An attachment structure of a camera module for attaching to a housing a camera module having an image capturing element portion mounted on a substrate and a lens portion provided on said image capturing element portion. The attachment structure includes an elastic m... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373186 | Folding-type portable information device provided with image capturing function A folding-type portable information device 120 provided with an image capturing function including a first housing 104 and a second housing 106 rotatably connected via a connecting unit 108, an image capturing unit 110 being provid... | 05/13/2008 |
| D566758 | Ink container | 04/15/2008 |
| D562381 | Ink cartridge | 02/19/2008 |
| 7297439 | Battery A battery including a battery cell provided with an electrode terminal protruding from a side, a circuit board attached along sides of the battery cell, and a resin mould section which partially covers the circuit board and the battery cell, thereby integrating them... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7266328 | Image forming apparatus having a cleaning mechanism An image forming apparatus having a cleaning mechanism for cleaning paper powder or toner pressed and remaining on the surface of the circumference of an endless belt is provided. The cleaning mechanism includes a rotational shaft part that is detachably and rotatab... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7226212 | Shield and sealing method for a hydrodynamic bearing A hydrodynamic bearing system, having a bearing sleeve and a shaft inserted into an inner cylindrical bore of the bearing sleeve. A bearing gap is formed between the shaft and the bearing sleeve, the bearing gap being filled with a lubricating oil. A shield encloses... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7162193 | Image forming apparatus having a multi-layered intermediate transfer belt An image forming apparatus having a belt supporting frame for supporting an intermediate transfer belt is provided. The intermediate transfer belt is a multi-layered structure composed of at least an elastic layer on a substrate layer. When a percentage difference o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7136262 | Pivot assembly preloaded by laser welding for hard disk drive use A pivot assembly for use in a hard disk drive, in which ball bearings are placed at both ends of a shaft, and a spacer is disposed between outer rings of the ball bearings. The spacer is fixed to the outer rings by laser welding. ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7079790 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a belt supporting frame for supporting an intermediate transfer belt is provided. The belt supporting frame may be separable into a plurality of unit bodies. Separation of the plurality of unit bodies may be regulated by a bending m... | 07/18/2006 |
| D524727 | Solar panel | 07/11/2006 |
| 7019767 | Image forming apparatus When intending gradational representation of each of the dots composing the image by changing the amount of light emission of each of the dots composing an image by changing the amount of light emission of said light emitting diode, the magnitude of each of the dots... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7002275 | Electric motor, particularly an electronically commutated direct current motor An electric motor, particularly an electronically commutated direct current motor, has a stator and a rotor. The stator and the rotor are arranged coaxially to a longitudinal axis of the electric motor. The stator features a plurality of electrical stator poles and ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6934466 | Buzz reduction circuit and TV/VCR combo using the same Buzz reduction circuit for eliminating a vertical period buzz without being influenced by amplifier circuits in an audio signal line. A video signal of a VCR video head is input to a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit to separate a vertical synchronizi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907216 | Image forming apparatus having a roll supporting member In order to provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming a quality image by restricting a distance between a developing roll and a magnetic roll with a simple structure, an image forming apparatus comprises a magnetic roll 1 and a developing roll ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6877919 | Foldable keyboard A portable foldable keyboard comprised of two housings, each of which contains a key assembly, and a central hinge. The two housings can be slid together when the keyboard is unfolded and they interlock to form a sturdy keyboard having the standard QWERTY keyswitch ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6876372 | Image forming apparatus In order to expose a required exposed line for which an exposing deviation caused by a fixing accuracy of an exposing head is corrected, when exposing images by dynamic lighting control, an image forming apparatus comprises a exposing head 24 having a plurali... | 04/05/2005 |
| D503694 | Cellular phone | 04/05/2005 |
| 6868240 | Method for developing in hybrid developing apparatus To avoid developing ghost and selective developing without complicating a developing apparatus and to supply surly charged toner to a developing roll while unevenness of images is not generated to obtain stable images for a long time even when continuous printing, a... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6857799 | Motor control method and apparatus, time recorder having same and impact type printing apparatus An impact printing apparatus is also disclosed with printing pin actuation timing correction dependent upon scanning speed or platen shape, striking duration timing dependent upon scanning rate, or printing pin actuation timing dependent upon stored shift amounts. | 02/22/2005 |
| 6831386 | Stator device A stator device which prevents the formation of varnish accumulations on jumper wires, thereby preventing jumper wire breakage due to temperature variations. A gap is created between the jumper wire and the stud located on the stator body. When varnish is applied to... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6829462 | Toner supply apparatus for image forming machine A toner supply container comprises a container body accommodating toner. The container body is detachably mounted from above into a machine body of an image forming machine along a first guide member and a second guide member provided with a predetermined spacing in... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6810091 | Digital data deinterleaver There is disclosed a reduced-scale digital data deinterleaver of simple structure. In a preferred embodiment each word is comprised of 32 bits of data, and 32 words form a block. In each block, each word is separated into four phases cyclically. The resulting bit li... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6798395 | Information terminal equipment provided with backlight An information terminal device comprises a backlight for illuminating a key operation portion or a LCD display portion; an optical sensor portion for detecting lightness of the surroundings; a backlight control for turning on illumination light according to surround... | 09/28/2004 |
