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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 |
| 7400261 | Display device, and vehicle-mounted display device and electronic To provide a display device, a vehicle-mounted display device, and an electronic device whose chassis are not large with much design freedom. In the present invention, a plurality of light-emitting elements each having a luminescent material sandwiched between a pai... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7365649 | Security device and methods for security device operation In one embodiment, a security device is disclosed. The device includes 1) a lighting fixture; 2) a number of lighting elements, mounted to the lighting fixture; and 3) a control circuit, programmed to vary the luminosity and duration of the drive currents provided t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7245228 | Portable electronic apparatus with controlled light sources A portable electronic apparatus has light sources that can be controlled to produce decorative or informational effects. Each light source is controlled by the combination of an enable signal from a 1-bit port of a controller and a PWM signal from a PWM signal from ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7119707 | Circuit for providing electrical current to a bicycle device A circuit for providing electrical current to an electrically operated bicycle device comprises a current supply circuit that supplies DC current from the power supply to the bicycle device along a current path and a current limiting circuit that includes an active ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7034778 | Color head-up display, in particular for a vehicle In a color head-up display, in particular for vehicles, in which the light from a light source (2) is transmitted through an at least partially light-transmitting display (3) and can be projected onto a windshield, a multiplicity of red, blue and green... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7019765 | Input device An input device, which is small-sized and inexpensive in spite of being simple in construction and thin, comprises at least one primary electrode and a plurality of secondary electrodes, both electrodes being formed in the same plane. A position of a dielectric is i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7002562 | Interconnecting large area display panels A display made from a display panel and a circuit board that are surface mounted to one another. The surface mount interconnections may be distributed across the display avoiding the need to situate the contacts around the periphery. Particularly, in large area disp... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6989807 | LED driving device A LED driving device includes a plurality of LEDs, a voltage detecting circuit, and a current switching circuit. When the voltage detecting circuit detects the different voltage level of power source without coupling to a filtering capacitor, it sends a signal to th... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6972732 | Information display system An information display system in which information can be referred to without a power supply anytime and anywhere like information recorded on paper, and in which information can be rewritten repeatedly, and such information can be outputted instantaneously and in l... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6825772 | Electroluminescent dashboard control circuit An electroluminescent dashboard control circuit for automobile in which a voltage comparator is used to control the operation of different colors of electroluminescent lamps subject to the voltage level of inputted voice signal received from a microphone, and a swit... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6741225 | Device for generating an image In order to provide a device for generating an image on an image surface with N×M image elements which can be illuminated individually, comprising a plurality of semiconductor radiation sources, each of which generates radiation with at least one color, an optical ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6693550 | Visually displaying status information in an electronic signaling system A visual indicator array has (M×N)/2 pairs of indicator devices arranged in a two-dimensional, linear array having M rows and N columns, where M is an integer greater than or equal to two, and N is an integer greater than or equal to one. The array also ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6646547 | Light-producing warning device for skateboard A light-producing warning device for skateboard includes a case connected to an underside of a deck of the skateboard for accommodating batteries; a control circuit unit mounted in the case to electrically connect to the batteries and including a switch; ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6265986 | Display system In a small display system in which the area of each of a display device and a driving device is approximately reduced to the area of an image display part, the display device having the image display part and the driving device having a driving IC for dri... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6222459 | Method of word screen formation by laser light projection and the structure for the same The present invention relates to a method of word screen formation by laser light projection and the structure of word formation by laser light projection, and in particular, relates to a plurality of laser production devices arranged in a single column a... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6070988 | Control panel for an image forming device A control panel that includes printed information cards used in conjunction with status indicators to give the user detailed information about printer operations. The invented control panel includes a series of status indicators, such as the indicator lig... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5977879 | Display device and an inspection circuit A display device having driving circuits one for each of its light-emitting elements permits easy inspection of the driving circuits. The display device is formed as a fluorescent display tube that has an array of light-emitting units each consisting of a... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5909182 | Vandal resistant light signal unit A vandal resistant light signal unit consisting of a modular integrated circuit arrangement having an insulative circuit board, which has a first broad area layer of conductive material on one side of the circuit board and a second broad area layer on an ... | 06/01/1999 |
