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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7355501 | Evaluation device and vibration damper for a racket A device for contact-less measurement of distances (10, 20) in multiple directions of an electrically conductive body (2, 22) comprises a plurality of inductive elements (1, 4, 7). At least one (1) of the plurality of inductive elements (1, 4... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7167357 | Surface mount MELF capacitor The surface mount MELF capacitor of the present invention includes a wire and a conductive powder element electrically connected to the wire. The surface mount MELF capacitor has insulative material surrounding at least a portion of the conductive powder element and... | 01/23/2007 |
| 5771148 | Intercalation-based voltage variable capacitor A voltage variable capacitor (VVC) is made by placing an intercalation compound between two electrodes of a capacitor. The VVC has a reservoir of an intercalant in proximity with the intercalation compound. The two materials are chosen from those known to... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5545933 | Electric power storage apparatus An electric power storage apparatus is formed of a plurality of series-connected cells to obtain a desired working voltage, each of the cells being constituted by one electric double-layer capacitor or a plurality of electric double-layer capacitors conne... | 08/13/1996 |
| 4665788 | Keyboard apparatus A keyboard-operated tone-producing apparatus having, in combination, keyboard means the keys of which are mounted for downward depression to effect tone production in the apparatus; electronic digital signal processor means; tone-generating means; pressur... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4264903 | Capacitive touch control and display A control for use upon a solid panel, devoid of control shaft apertures, allows data entry by rotational positioning of a human member, such as one's finger, about a pattern of a plurality of interdigitated electrodes formed upon an interior surface of th... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4264942 | Miniature variable capacitor provided with a driving mechanism A miniature variable capacitor comprises a miniature variable capacitor main body comprising stator plates, a base plate for supporting the stator plates, and rotor plates. held to a rotor shaft and undergoing displacement, in accordance with rotation of ... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4233593 | Capacitive touch control and display A control for use upon a solid panel, devoid of control shaft apertures, allows data entry by rotational positioning of a sector-shaped electrode to vary the capacitance to at least one of a plurality of sector-shaped electrodes formed about a central dis... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4190877 | Miniature variable capacitor A miniature variable capacitor comprises a base plate having a base plate main part having stator support poles embedded in one surface of said base plate main part and mounting plate parts extending from said base plate main part in lateral directions an... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4173032 | Binary capacitor A binary capacitor consists of a piston having a metallized band on its periphery. The piston is movable between first and second positions within a cylinder which carries two spaced metallized bands. One of the positions of the piston defines a position ... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4158216 | Capacitive touch control A control for use upon a solid panel, devoid of control shaft apertures, allows data entry by rotational positioning of an electrode to vary the capacitance to at least one of a multiplicity of electrodes formed upon an interior surface of the panel. A ma... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4101951 | Variable capacitor A variable capacitor for use in electrical and electronic equipment which includes a stator disposed on an insulating base, a stator terminal lead having an electrode portion fixed to the stator and a terminal end extending through the insulating base. Th... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4027569 | Keyboard for an electronic musical instrument employing variable capacitors A keyboard of an electronic musical instrument incorporates a plurality of variable capacitors, one for each key, with one conductor of each capacitor being connected for movement with an individual key of the keyboard toward and away from the other condu... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3953771 | Multiple trimmer capacitor, particularly for adjustment of crystal oscillators A support disk of insulating material is formed with at least two apertures therethrough located side-by-side, and has a metallization layer applied thereto shaped to form a common stator electrode. At least two disk rotors are placed against the common s... | 04/27/1976 |
