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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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| 8184416 | Inverter driver and lamp driver thereof An inverter driver controls an inverter that supplies driving voltages to a plurality of discharge lamps. The inverter driver senses the abnormal operation of the plurality of discharge lamps based on a plurality of first feedback voltages corresponding to the plura... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183824 | Adaptive mode change for power unit In one embodiment of the present invention, a system includes a power stage component operable to generate an output voltage from a power source and to provide the output voltage to an electrical device. The power stage component is capable of operating in a plurali... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174961 | Switch control device The present invention relates to a switch controlling apparatus. The switch controlling apparatus controls a main switch by using a first signal that corresponds to a current flowing to the main switch. The switch controlling apparatus includes a PWM controller for ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169802 | Switch controller of a converter with a soft start signal generator comprising a plurality of current sources Disclosed are a switch controller, a switch control method, a converter using the same, and a driving method thereof. A first voltage is generated by using a voltage that is input to an input terminal, and a soft start signal is generated by using the first voltage ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8154346 | Short circuits and power limit protection circuits In one embodiment, a method includes: detecting one of a short-to-ground condition and a short-to-supply condition at an output node; selectively activating a feedback control transistor according to the detecting; detecting a first current passing through a first t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144486 | Power converter and driving method thereof In a power converter, a primary coil receives an input voltage, and a switch includes a first electrode, a second electrode coupled to the primary coil, and a control electrode. An output unit includes a secondary coil, and outputs an output voltage. The primary coi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8129959 | Start-up circuitry and method for power converter In one embodiment, circuitry is provided for startup of a power converter. The circuitry includes a bias capacitor operable to be charged for providing energy to a controller of the power converter. A divider circuit is coupled to a voltage source. Current flows thr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115466 | Converter and driving method thereof A converter is disclosed for using at least one switch to convert an input signal to a square wave signal, and using the square wave signal to generate an output voltage. The converter converts the square wave signal by a switching operation of a switch and generate... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8092799 | Antibodies to Apo-2 receptor polypeptides Novel polypeptides, designated Apo-2, which are capable of modulating apoptosis are provided. Compositions including Apo-2 chimeras, nucleic acid encoding Apo-2, and antibodies to Apo-2 are also provided. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091679 | Electric power steering device A highly safe electric power steering device including a control device for determining the failure of a motor current detector based on the difference between the motor current estimate value and the detected motor current value is provided. The abnormality determi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089784 | Synchronous rectifier This invention relates to a synchronous rectifier for LLC resonant converter. This method allows simple drive method for the synchronous rectifier MOSFETS by using the transformer secondary winding voltage and one-shot vibrator. The synchronous rectifier MOSFETs are... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085558 | Resonant converter A resonant converter includes a square wave generator including a first switch and a second switch, and generating a first square wave corresponding to an input voltage by alternately turning on/off the first and second switches; a resonator including a first coil o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076968 | Low-input-voltage charge pump In an embodiment, a charge pump of relatively simple design is provided which can generate sufficient drive voltage for a power switching device from a low-supply-voltage (e.g., 1V). In some embodiments, this charge pump performs better at lower input voltages when ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072847 | Optical device, optically heat assisted magnetic recording head and optically heat assisted magnetic recording apparatus, having intensity point deviated from axis of the core Provided are an optical device, optically assisted magnetic recording head and optically assisted magnetic recording apparatus that effectively emit the introduced light, from the apex portion of a waveguide. The optical device includes: an optical element having a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072527 | Solid state image sensing device A column A/D converter includes two column A/D converting elements. Each of the column A/D converting elements is operable to divide a pixel signal read out from a pixel array into two blocks i.e. an upper block constituted of upper two bit data, and a lower block c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068291 | Imaging lens, imaging device, portable terminal, and method for manufacturing imaging lens An imaging lens (LN) includes one or two lens blocks (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes a plane-parallel lens substrate (LS) and a lens (L) formed of different materials. In the imaging lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) disposed at the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068167 | SMA actuator driving device, and image pickup device incorporated with the same In a shape memory alloy actuator driving device, a predetermined constant current is applied to a shape memory alloy member as a retrieval signal to detect a terminal voltage of the shape memory alloy member, and a detection result of the terminal voltage is compare... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068149 | Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus An image processing device includes a corrector for performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of an image by interpolating image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of an image pickup section, and locally ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064147 | Imaging lens, imaging device, portable terminal, and method for manufacturing imaging lens An imaging lens (LN) includes at least three lens blocks (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes parallel flat lens substrates (LS) formed of different materials, and a lens (L). In the imaging lens (LN), the object side lens surface of a firs... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061855 | Projection apparatus A projection apparatus including an image display element for modulating illumination light, an illumination optical system for irradiating the illumination light onto the image display element, a projection optical system for projecting the modulated light by the i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055780 | Method of managing information and information processing apparatus In a network composed of a plurality of nodes wherein the nodes verify mutually and can communicate directly each other, when a certificate is revoked due to withdrawal of a node, the revoking node transmits a withdrawal notice to all the other existing nodes which ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055320 | Vital information measuring device A vital information measuring device includes: a measuring unit for measuring certain vital information concerning a living body; a storage for storing therein a signal outputted from the measuring unit as measurement data; a vital information acquirer for acquiring... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055060 | Image processing apparatus capable of operating correspondence between base image and reference image, method of controlling that image processing apparatus, and computer-readable medium recording program for controlling that image processing apparatus An apparatus receives a base image and a reference image that are images picked up by two cameras provided on left and right. A weight coefficient determination portion determines a coefficient for cutting off a high-frequency region of combined phase spectrum of th... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052283 | Oblique projection optical system An oblique projection optical system enlarges an image formed on a display device surface, and obliquely projects the enlarged image on a screen surface. The oblique projection optical system has, in the order from a reduction side: a refraction optical portion havi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049306 | High voltage integration circuit with freewheeling diode embedded in transistor A high voltage integrated circuit contains a freewheeling diode embedded in a transistor. It further includes a control block controlling a high voltage transistor and a power block—including the high voltage transistor—isolated from the control block by a devic... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045906 | Belt-type fixing device having a pressure roller with surface undulations A belt-type fixing device having therein an endless fixing belt, a pressure roller arranged inside the aforesaid fixing belt and a pressure member that presses the fixing belt against the pressure roller, wherein a toner image on a recording material is fixed in a n... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042350 | Apparatus for controlling cooling device and cooling system A cooling device controller for controlling a cooling device is provided. The cooling device controller includes: a capacitor for supplying an output voltage through a first terminal; a first switch between a first input terminal and the first terminal of the capaci... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031415 | Imaging lens, imaging device, portable terminal, and method for manufacturing imaging lens An imaging lens (LN) includes one or two lens blocks (BK), and an aperture stop (ape). The lens block (BK) includes a plane-parallel lens substrate (LS) and a lens (L) formed of different materials. In the imaging lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) disposed ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027183 | 3-phase inverter module, motor driving apparatus using the same, and inverter integrated circuit package A 3-phase inverter module is provided, which includes first and second U-phase switching elements connected in series to each other to constitute a U-phase inverter, first and second V-phase switching elements connected in series to each other to constitute a V-phas... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026688 | Driving device In order to provide a driving device that is capable of eliminating sticking of a movable member due to nonuse, the driving device includes a drive shaft that reciprocates in axial directions with expansion and contraction of an electromechanical transducer element,... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023295 | Direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) generation In one embodiment, a power converter system comprises an input terminal operable to connect to a DC power source and an output terminal at which an output voltage can be provided. An active clamped forward converter is operable to provide forward power flow from the... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018694 | Over-current protection for a power converter In one embodiment, a method is provided for a power converter system. The method includes: providing a primary current limit for the power converter system, wherein the power converter system has one or more transistors which can be switched on at a primary frequenc... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013918 | Image capturing apparatus including an image sensor having three photoelectric conversion characteristics with each corresponding to a range of luminance intensity There is described an image capturing apparatus, which makes it possible to unify the gradation characteristics all over the captured image into the same characteristic. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that is provided with a first photoelectr... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013663 | Preventing reverse input current in a driver system In one embodiment, a method is provided for preventing reverse input current from flowing into a power source. The method includes: providing a system having a plurality of operating modes for driving a load, wherein in each operating mode the power delivered to the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013596 | Position detector and positioning device A position detector (3) capable of obtaining an output having a linearity in a wide range includes: a magnetic field generating member (11) attached to a movable member (10) movable in a predetermined movable direction (x); and magnetic field de... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009365 | Projection optical system The projection optical system uses a plurality of wavelengths or a wavelength band within a wavelength range from a visible region to a near ultraviolet region. The double-telecentric projection optical system includes: a first lens group with a positive power; a se... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007116 | Video projection device having a converter lens attachably and detachably provided A video projection device has one of a plurality of types of projection lenses replaceably loaded and projects a video on a screen at a fixed position. The video projection device includes: a converter lens which is composed of a plurality of lenses, which is afocal... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006363 | Manufacturing method of lens with built-in hologram element A method for manufacturing a hologram optical substrate having a hologram element includes: a cutting process that employs a laminate sheet having a pair of protective sheets with a hologram photosensitive sheet peelably interposed therebetween, and makes a cut to a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006010 | Information sharing system and relay device capable of controlling peripheral according to user manipulation A workspace control unit performs a process on a common work area screen for sharing information, and an information processor display transmission and reception unit transmits to a display of an information processor the common work area screen processed by the wor... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000590 | Driving apparatus, image capturing unit, and image capturing apparatus An object of the preset invention is to provide a technique capable of preventing occurrence of an assembly error. A driving apparatus for driving an object includes: a driving part having a stationary part and a moving part; and a displacement transmitting part for... | 08/16/2011 |
