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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 |
| 6429767 | Multidirectional input device In a multidirectional input device, a control shaft and an operating member are spline-connected so that when the control shaft is turned in the tilted state, the operating member spline-connected to the control shaft also turns even if there is friction ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6275139 | Multidirectional input device In a multidirectional input device, a surface of a bottom plate facing the bottom of an operating member is provided with a projection having a taper portion that gradually rises from the outer periphery toward the center, wherein the operating member is ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 5343188 | Slide rheostat type linear characteristic sensor A slide rheostat type linear characteristic sensor includes a detecting resistor R2 printed on a substrate 8. A brush 7 slides on the detecting resistor R2. Clamping resistors R1 and R3 are printed, simultaneously with the detecting resistor, on the subst... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5113172 | Angle of rotation potentiometer A potentiometer for the redundant measurement of the angle of rotation of a shaft compared with a fixed member has two resistance paths located concentrically with each other on a fixed disk. Two collector paths having the shape of circular rings are loca... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4587510 | Analog joystick controller An analog joystick controller includes a handle shaft engageable with two yokes rotatably movable respectively about two perpendicular axes in response to tilting of the handle shaft. The yokes are respectively coupled to the wipers of two potentiometers,... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4150347 | Dual band pushbutton electronic tuning system A tuning device comprises a preset mechanism capable of producing a tuning voltage to be applied to an electronic tuning circuit by moving any push button.... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4035747 | Adjustable attenuation equalizer Attenuation equalizer in the circuit of an adjustable four-terminal network for correcting the frequency-related attenuation curve of cables including a bridged T circuit containing ohmic resistances and having two fixed ohmic series resistance, preferabl... | 07/12/1977 |
