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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4522592 | Valve structure for an oral evacuator system A hand-held valve structure for use with an oral evacuator system of the type which includes a vacuum source/waste disposal unit connected to the valve structure through a flexible vacuum hose. The valve structure includes an elongated body member having ... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4521835 | Flexible elongated lighting system A lightweight emergency lighting system capable of arrangement into various subjective configurations is provided. A housing member supports a plurality of individual lighting elements mounted on a common semi-rigid bus bar. The upper configuration of the... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4520527 | Concrete finishing tool A concrete finishing adapter is disclosed which enables a user to adjust the angle of a bull float or the like, which is adapted for connection to the adapter. The angle of the bull float is adjusted so that it does not gouge into the unset surface of con... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4518353 | Vacuum sintering furnace The disclosure relates to a vacuum sintering furnace having a lubricant eliminating section, sintering section and cooling section which are aligned in series and connected by connecting hood means to each other so that a workpiece may be directly transfe... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4518250 | Exposure control device for a photographic enlarger An exposure control device for a photographic enlarger includes a printing control means for controlling the exposure of a printing section having a light source. When a printing start means is manually operated, the printing control means actuates the pr... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4518229 | Telephoto lens system A telephoto lens system comprising a front lens group of a positive refractive power fixed on the optical axis and a rear lens group of a negative refractive power is provided. The rear lens group consists, from the object to the image side, of a first po... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4516948 | Reconfigurable toy assembly A reconfigurable toy assembly having foldable portions to allow the toy assembly to simulate a toy combination vehicle having a tractor unit and a trailer unit separatably connected to each other. The tractor unit when separated from the trailer unit is r... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4516839 | Zoom lens system A zoom lens system comprising a first lens group of a negative refractive power, a second lens group of a positive refractive power located on the image side of the first lens group with a first variable air space, a third lens group of a negative refract... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4514052 | High speed objective lens system with an aspheric surface A Gauss type objective lens system with a high speed of F1.2 for 35 mm SLR cameras is provided. The lens system consists of seven lenses, the object side surface of the second lens being aspheric, and fulfills the following conditions: wherein: Da represe... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4511785 | Seam tracker A seam tracker in which a shaft containing a position-indicator-member, e.g., a ferromagnetic portion, is attached to a probe, and is mounted on a ball joint and the ball joint is pivotally mounted on a pin the ends of which extend through slots in a hous... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4510650 | Cable clamp assembly A wire bundle or cable clamp primarily adapted for use in the aviation industry is disclosed. The clamp includes a flexible strap having a serrated portion and a strap receiving member to which the strap is mounted onto the strap receiving member and is b... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4509846 | Camera system A camera system includes a data source provided in a camera accessory such as an interchangeable lens and a micro-computer in a camera body. A requesting data for requesting particular data related to the lens is sent from the camera body to the lens, whe... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4509842 | Camera system capable of focus detection through an interchangeable objective lens A camera system with an auto-focusing system includes a camera body and an interchangeable zoom lens. The interchangeable objective lens stores various data to be sent to the camera body for improving automatic focus adjustment, such as an information nec... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4508587 | Masking paper and tape dispenser A tape and paper dispensing apparatus which has a C-shaped tubular frame and handle combination to which are also mounted a bracket for the tape and paper roller drums and a bracket for the cutting blade. The frame doubles as a handle and is made more sta... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4506974 | Copying machine A copying machine includes a drive motor for driving the copying machine, a device for generating a start signal for starting the drive motor, an auto-shut device for stopping the drive motor a predetermined period of time after the completion of a copyin... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4504950 | Tunable graded rod laser assembly A tunable laser assembly including a pair of radially graded indexed optical segments aligned to focus the laser to form an external resonant cavity with an optical axis, the respective optical segments are retativity moveable along the optical axis and p... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4504062 | Digital watch having matrix display for arcade-like game playing A digital electronic watch having a matrix game display comprising a plurality of game display element arranged in a matrix on the display, each having at least two game display element segments and with selective illumination of game display element segm... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4503578 | Brush assembly apparatus for cleaning cannons A brush assembly for cleaning the bore of a cannon. The assembly includes a cylindrically-shaped brush (46) supported on front and rear plates (22, 24). An assembly shaft (30) extends through the plate, the center of the brush and through the rear plate. ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4500957 | Timing control system for determining abnormal motor operation A control system for a machine includes a pulse generator for generating a pulse signal synchronized with the speed of drive of the machine and a programmed control device for receiving the pulse signal and controlling the sequence of operation of the mac... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4500879 | Circuitry for controlling a CRT beam A CRT beam control apparatus wherein a microprocessor drives the CRT beam for controlling the beam characteristics, including writing speed, slope, position and intensity. The apparatus includes a single digital-to-analog converter supplying sample-and-ho... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4496788 | Photovoltaic device A photovoltaic device comprising at least one crystalline and one amorphous semiconductor region with different photosensitivity is provided to absorb light in a wide range of wavelength, and serves, for example, as a solar battery or a color sensor. Amor... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4496330 | Miniature toy vehicle assembly A powered miniature toy vehicle having: an upper body member, a lower frame member of approximately 50 mm in length, a front wheel and axle assembly, a rear wheel and axle assembly, and a spring motor assembly. The ratio of the length of the motor assembl... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4494862 | Computerized information processing system equipped with copying apparatus A computerized information-processing system including a copying machine operatively associated with a computer having a data storage apparatus having a plurality of memory locations wherein the copying apparatus is capable of reading a coded pattern on a... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4494849 | Focus detecting device for a camera The focus detecting device herein disclosed is capable of detecting the amount of direction of defocus of an objective lens. The device includes a pair of photoelectric devices each disposed optically in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4494828 | Zoom lens system of relatively high zoom ratio ranging to wide angle photography A zoom lens system of a relatively high zoom ratio ranging from a telephoto to a wide field angle is provided. The zoom lens system comprises from the object to the image side a first lens group of a positive refractive power, a second lens group of a neg... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4494232 | Statistical multiplexer with dynamic bandwidth allocation for asynchronous and synchronous channels A statistical multiplexer is disclosed that includes interfaces for asynchronous and synchronous data equipment, and a CPU/control logic. The CPU/control logic cooperates with the interface for the synchronous data equipment for allocating bandwidth to sy... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4493672 | Toy vehicle assembly A toy vehicle assembly that can be self-propelled by a spring motor and is designed to permit the front wheels to be lifted off of the traveling surface by the addition of a weighted member. The weighted member is positioned on a pivotable bracket which i... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4493536 | Inverted telephoto type lens system An improved 5-component, 5-lens element inverted telephoto objective lens system is provided comprising from object to image side of a negative meniscus single lens element, a biconvex single lens element, a biconcave single lens element, a positive menis... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4492448 | Automatic focusing device for use in a camera The automatic focusing system disclosed is characterized that the focusing condition of an objective lens to be focused is repeatedly detected with the objective lens being moved, and that defocus signals, each representing a defocus direction and a defoc... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4492437 | Zoom lens system A zoom lens system with an improved focusing system is provided. The zoom lens system comprises, from the object to the image side, a front lens group, a zooming lens group including at least a movable lens group, and a macroscopically fixed rear lens gro... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4491827 | Preset counter apparatus for copying machines and the like The present invention provides a preset counter apparatus for a copying machine wherein input keys are capable of independently controlling the numerical value of the number of copies to be made and displayed. Thus, an operator can activate one key to cha... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4490124 | Running toy The invention relates to a running toy having a self-contained motor assembly. The running toy is provided with a pivoting member and a mechanism by which it is actuated in response to the motion of part of the motor assembly to make the running toy somer... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4490035 | Abnormality detecting device for the original carriage of a copying machine An abnormality detecting device for a copying machine of a type having a scanner for scanning an original to be copied comprises a timer or counter for counting the time required for the scanner to move from a start position to a scanned position. The cou... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4489359 | Card key switch A card key switch including a card key obtained by forming notches, in accordance with a key code, on opposite side edges of a card or a card casing for accommodating the card, a key cylinder formed with a key slot, a plurality of tumblers, a light emitti... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4488776 | Plastic lens cell An improved lens cell is provided wherein a pair of identical housing elements cooperate with an aperture member that has a surface configuration to both space and center lens elements that are retained within the housing elements.... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4487472 | Light beam scanning apparatus The present invention includes a rotable disk type of hologram which deflects an incident light beam such as a laser into an intermediate scanning path of a curvilinear configuration. An extended prism provides a variable incident angle surface for refrac... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4485336 | Electronic flash device In an electronic flash device for use in a still camera, a calculation circuit means calculates a ratio of the amounts of light to be emitted by a plurality of flash light tubes on the basis of color temperature information and control circuit means contr... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4482978 | Key switch input control circuit In an instrument such as an electronic desk-top or pocket calculator, an exposure meter or the like, having a plurality of data-inputting switches in the form of a pushbutton switch, key switch, pressure or touch sensor switch, a control switch is provide... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4482895 | Multi-channel micropower communication link A remote controlling apparatus comprising a transmitter including a pulse generating circuit the output of which is a plurality of pulses of radiant energy having an envelope of a selected pulse width and a selected pulse interval and a receiver including... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4482797 | Electrode biasing welding torch An improved welding torch which includes a contact member constituted by a power feeding member having a through-opening for passing a consumable electrode wire and a support member for supporting the power feeding member, an electrode wire guide member c... | 11/13/1984 |
