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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7356422 | Apparatus and method for high-speed load shedding in an electrical power system An apparatus and method causes a response action in an electrical power distribution system having, inter alia, a plurality of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) configured to provide protective monitoring and control of the electrical power system. The method in... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339499 | Keypad signal input apparatus Keypad apparatus for registering signals corresponding to data that a user enters by pressure on keys of an array in a surface extending in two dimensions. The elements of first and second sets of impedance elements (R) are connected in series through respective int... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317440 | Circuit and method for driving a liquid crystal display device using low power Provided are a circuit and method for driving a liquid crystal display device using low power. The circuit includes a display data latch, a gamma decoder, and a driver cell circuit. The display data latch latches display data from a memory. The gamma decoder receive... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7245606 | Switching device comprising a common voltage reference path The invention relates to a switching device comprising a plurality of inputs and outputs which are interconnected by an interconnection point matrix for transmitting electric signals supplied from the inputs to the outputs via transmission lines in accordance with a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7221273 | Automated locking system An improved storage system includes a plurality of individual storage units enclosed in a secured perimeter with security gates for entry and exit. Each individual storage unit has a door, an alarm and a locking mechanism. Each door has a sensor which senses whether... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7190412 | Video switching systems and methods Systems and methods for performing video switching between multiple inputs and outputs are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a video box coupled to one or more user interfaces, a plurality of video inputs, and a plurality of video outputs. The video bo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190357 | Signal line drive circuit, image display device, and portable apparatus The signal line drive circuit is provided with: a reference voltage chooser circuit for choosing one of incoming voltages in accordance with tones represented by an image signal to output the chosen voltage as a signal line drive signal; and a reference voltage line... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158056 | Method and apparatus for scanning a key or button matrix An improved key matrix scanning technique conducts a first pre-scan on a first array of connections in a key matrix to identify any activated keys or buttons associated with the first array. A second sub-scan is conducted on a second array of connections in the key ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7075505 | Liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal controller and video signal transmission method It is one object of the present invention to reduce the number of inputs to an LCD driver and to reduce manufacturing costs by employing the COG&WOA technique. For a liquid crystal display device, source driver ICs 20, among which video signals are tra... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6998935 | Switch matrix A switch matrix including a plurality of microstrip pairs arranged to form a grid and switches to couple the microstrip pairs where they cross. Each microstrip pair includes a first microstrip and a second microstrip for passing signals. The signals on the first and... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995656 | Switching device comprising local decoding means The invention relates to a switching device comprising a plurality of inputs and outputs which are interconnected by a matrix of interconnection points for transmitting electric signals supplied from the inputs to the outputs via transmission lines in accordance wit... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6965299 | High-speed, low-power crossbar switch In a crosspoint switch, both input buses and output buses are driven at low swing. Self-timed, differential, push-pull, low swing driver circuits drive the input buses and are provided in the crosspoints to drive the output buses. Clocked, regenerative sense amplifi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6865639 | Scalable self-routing superconductor switch A crossbar switch includes a cross-point matrix with n input rows of cross-points and m output columns of cross-points. The crossbar switch further includes n decoders connected to the n input rows. Each of the n rows includes a single serial address input, a shift ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6850174 | Method and apparatus for recognizing key A method is provided for recognizing a key in a terminal apparatus having a key matrix structure. The method according to the invention includes the steps of recognizing pushing of and detaching from a key by using a difference between a previous key status value on... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6737958 | Crosspoint switch with reduced power consumption A crosspoint switch architecture implements high-speed packet switches and incorporates a power-saving bias control circuit with each switch cell. Each switch cell is equipped with two memory cells and a bias control circuit. Power savings are obtained by controllin... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6580359 | Selectable input buffer control system A selectable input buffer control system includes at least one input buffer; a plurality of input receivers associated with each input buffer; an addresser circuit for addressing each input receiver; and a selection circuit associated with each input buff... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6525650 | Electronic switching matrix A high density electronic switching matrix (ESM) includes several splitting modules (200) arranged along a first axis, each including a signal input (202) and several splitter outputs (204). The ESM (500, 600) further includes several switching modules (4... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6515579 | Switching apparatus for routing communication channels through a satellite payload Active switch matrix apparatus that is used in a satellite communications system that provides for reconfigurability of the communication channels of the communications system. The active switch matrix apparatus has redundan channels and components that p... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6509846 | Key matrix circuit A key matrix circuit has a switching circuit with a first terminal and a second terminal that are switched on and off by pressing a selection key of a plurality of selection keys arranged in an N-row-by-M-column matrix, thereby making connection to a comm... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6426710 | Security keyboard matrix scanning method A security keyboard matrix scanning method for a keyboard is disclosed. This invention utilizes bi-directional input/output ports, in which each line of the X-port and the Y-port can be selectively designated as a sensing line or an output line, to constr... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6351258 | Switcher system and I/O switching method The present invention switches an input/output route for each signal, even if types of signals are increased, without installing additional switchers. The present invention provides a matrix-shaped switcher, including a group of a plurality of cross-point... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6307681 | Electro-optical device, electronic equipment, and method of driving an electro-optical device The present invention provides an electro-optical apparatus which, produce precharge signals PV1 and PV2 to be supplied to a precharge signal line using, for example, a differentiating circuit, outputs a peak at the rising edge or the falling edge of each... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6198873 | Editing system and video signal output system An editing system and a video signal output system are disclosed. The inventive system comprises a server for reproducing video signals for a plurality of scenes from disk drives and for consecutively outputting these video signals through a single output... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5929790 | Analog to digital converter keypad method and apparatus An ADC (analog digital converter) keypad apparatus controls key inputs according to a voltage divided by a plurality of voltage dividing resistors. The ADC keypad apparatus includes an ADC keypad, an A/D converter for converting a divided voltage which is... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5914677 | Apparatus and method for scanning a switch array A switch array decoding circuit, suitable for use in a keyboard, and method according to the present invention comprises a matrix of row lines and column lines. Switches from the array are connected between intersections of the row lines and column lines.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5856794 | Method and apparatus for scanning keyboard and diode option A method and apparatus for improved scanning keyboard and diodes option is disclosed. Each of the pins is treated as one independent dimension so as to define a multi-dimensional configuration. The circuit includes a clock generation circuit, a keyboard I... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5631637 | Output method for dot data and apparatus therefor A data output apparatus is equipped with a wireless data receiving unit, for wireless data reception from an external equipment, and a cable data receiving unit for data reception, through a cable, from the external equipment, and is capable of automatica... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5623519 | Apparatus for comparing the weight of a binary word to a number A logic circuit (260) includes recursive elements (470, 1070, 1400, 1600) interconnected in a matrix (300), and M data inputs (490), and a logic circuit output (475). In one embodiment, N+1 binary column setup inputs (485), and M-N binary row setup inputs... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5555436 | Apparatus for allowing multiple parallel port devices to share a single parallel port An apparatus and system which allows multiple parallel port devices to share a single parallel port of a personal computer. The invention uses the parallel port signal called Select-- In which is activated/de-activated by a program running in t... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5446370 | Method and apparatus for verifying the output of a RF switch matrix utilized in a communication system A transceiver (203) instructs a RF switch matrix (200) to direct its output to any one of M outputs and likewise sends information related to the power and frequency of the RF input signal and the switched output to an OMC (112). Each output of the matrix... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5319361 | Circuit managing numbers of accesses to logic resources A circuit managing numbers of accesses to logic resources, such as buffer memory data cells in a time switching system. The circuit is structured around a counting cell matrix including a synchronous counter storing an instananeous number of accesses rela... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5216420 | Matrix sorting network for sorting N inputs onto N outputs In a switching system, or the like, an apparatus for sorting N signals has log2 N stages of sorting matrices wherein each stage comprises M (N/2M)-by-(N/2M) matrices of sorting cells and the final stage (M=1) comprises an N/2-by-N/2 matrix of s... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5210529 | Bit finder circuit A circuit to find the first bit 0 or 1 in an m-bit input word from a start bit onwards, the positions of these bits being defined by an n-bit code. It includes a crosspoint matrix of m (4) rows and n (2) columns, each crosspoint including a change-over co... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5017917 | Restriction of communication service accessibility among subscriber communities Subscribers (100-108) of an electronic mail system (1-2) service are divided into a plurality of subscriber communities (30-34). Subscribers in each community have common rights of access to one or more communication service--the sending and receiving of ... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4978953 | Device for monitoring multiple digital data channels A device for switching data channel signal lines of each of a number of data channels through modules having interconnection switching matrices, to a further device adapted to monitor the signal lines, including a module decoder for selective activation o... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4970508 | System for monitoring switch locations A system is provided for electronically monitoring a group of sensor switches employed at remote locations in security or alarm systems. To monitor the status of individual switches, a matrix of conductors is employed. The matrix has a predetermined numbe... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4965570 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus has a plurallity of photoelectric conversion elements each providing an output signal to a storage capacitor. A matrix wiring unit is arranged opposite the photoelectric conversion elements so as not to cross the signa... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4821033 | Matrix switching apparatus for preventing pseudo input A matrix switching apparatus for preventing a pseudo input condition caused by a detour of a signal as well as output of an erroneous signal caused by a noise intruding into an apparatus and the like, in which a plurality of key lines having a plurality o... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4771281 | Bit selection and routing apparatus and method A bit selection and routing apparatus and method selects m data signals from among its n available data inputs and groups those m signals on its output lines. The apparatus employs a two-dimensional array of signal selection elements which are multiplexin... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4677437 | Input signal switching matrix for an elevator In this invention, "column" buses connected to a power supply and "row" input lines are arranged in the shape of a matrix, external signal lines are connected to the intersection points thereof, and the "column" buses are switched at predetermined cycles ... | 06/30/1987 |
