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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177587 | Connector with movable-side contact and fixed-side contact A connector which makes it possible to accommodate positional displacement from a mating connector, and prevent the contact force and the amount of deformation of contacts from becoming too large. Fixed-side contacts are fixed to a fixed-side housings. A movable-sid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172624 | Wiring device assembly with contact stabilizing structure A wiring device assembly with one or more electrical contacts having respective contact stabilizing assemblies which are operable to rigidly hold the electrical contacts in a device housing. The contact stabilizing assemblies prevent the contacts from becoming displ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167664 | Receptacle connector A receptacle connector includes a body; a conductive member received in the body and having a bottom, in which a soldering portion extends from the bottom, the bottom is bent upwards to form a base, an angle is formed between the planes of the base and the bottom, t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8109798 | Electrical connector with improved receiving channels latched with contacts An electrical connector (100), comprising an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (2) received in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a base portion (11) and a mating portion (12) in front of the ba... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8087957 | Terminal member A terminal member capable of connecting a motor and a motor control circuit unit to each other reliably and efficiently. The terminal member includes first and second terminals, a pressing member, an urging member and a holder. The first terminal and second terminal... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8083554 | Connector assembly having a unitary housing A connector insert includes a unitary body, cavities extending through the body, and contacts. The body extends between mating and loading sides. The loading side is configured to engage a circuit board. The mating side is configured to mate with a peripheral connec... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8057267 | Orthogonal header An electrically-conductive contact for an electrical connector is disclosed. Such a contact may include a lead portion, an offset portion extending from an end of the lead portion, and a mounting portion that may extend from a distal end of the offset portion. The l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8038485 | Electrical connector having contacts secured in a housing body An electrical connector includes a unitary housing body and a stamped and formed contact. The housing extends from a mounting side to an opposite mating side. The housing body includes a cavity extending through the housing body from the mounting side to the mating ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7988500 | Socket and contact having anchors A socket apparatus comprises a base portion defining an array of contact cavities. A plurality of contacts are inserted into the array of contact cavities defined in the base portion. The base portion includes a top side and a bottom side and a plurality of ribs ext... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7967647 | Orthogonal header An electrically-conductive contact for an electrical connector is disclosed. Such a contact may include a lead portion, an offset portion extending from an end of the lead portion, and a mounting portion that may extend from a distal end of the offset portion. The l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7833068 | Receptacle connector for a transceiver assembly A receptacle connector includes a housing having a front, a rear, and a cavity configured to receive a mating connector through a slot at the front of the housing. A plurality of contacts are loaded into the cavity of the housing through the rear of the housing, and... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7775839 | Connector and manufacturing method of the same A connector includes a plate-shaped contact; and an insulator including a fixing hole into which the contact is pressed to be fixed. At least a part of the fixing hole has a cross section in a cruciform shape. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7744431 | Receptacle contact with a widened mating tip A receptacle connector includes a housing and a receptacle contact. The housing includes a cavity extending through the housing from the mating side to the mounting side. The receptacle contact is disposed within the cavity and is configured to receive a mating cont... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744430 | Electrical connector for electronic modules An electrical contact includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis. The body includes a mating contact portion for electrical connection with an electronic module, an intermediate portion extending from the mating contact portion, and a mounting contact porti... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7708605 | Connector with terminal fittings press fit in a base wall of a connector housing A base wall (21) of a connector housing (20) is formed with through holes (25), into which terminal fittings (60) are insertable. The inner surface of each through hole (25) includes an inclined portion (26) narrowed toward ... | 05/04/2010 |
| RE41182 | Sealed pass-through electrical connector A pass-through electrical connector assembly with a body having at least one through-hole formed therein. A pin is forced into the through-hole and held by the body. The pin has a shank with opposed ends, each with a blind hole to receive a wire and a solid center p... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7645172 | Connector and assembling method therefor A connector has terminal fittings (20) with a touching section (41) to be held in contact with a mating terminal (30) and a housing (10) formed with press-in holes (14, 14A), into which the terminal fittings (20) are pressed... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7604517 | Electrical terminal A conductive contact (5) includes a right base portion (51), a securing portion (51) extending from a lower end of the base portion (51), wherein the securing portion (53) defines at least one barb (531) with a side of the s... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604518 | Electrical contact with retention latch An electrical contact for use with electronic devices is provided. This electrical contact includes a mating portion; a wire retaining portion; and body portion formed integrally with the wire retaining portion. The body portion further includes a central axis runni... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601035 | Connector A terminal receiving member 4 of a connector 1 is attached to a housing 3 to cover an outer surface of the housing 3, with lances 41 inserted in insertion holes 31 of the housing 3. A detection portion 41a | 10/13/2009 |
| 7597594 | Electrical connecting terminal This invention relates to an electrical connecting terminal (10) with an insulating housing (20), which contains a clamp body receptacle (22) with an insertion opening (21) for an electrical conductor, with a clamp body (30), which... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591691 | Plug-in connector The invention relates to a plug-in connector (10) having at least one contact chamber (50) provided in a plug housing (12) for receiving a contact element (11) that provides at least one abutment (51, 52) for a locating element ( | 09/22/2009 |
| 7559808 | Connector A connector housing (10) is formed with a mount hole (21) for a retainer (60), and the retainer (60) is inserted into the mount hole (21) to lock and retain terminal fittings (40) inserted into cavities (13). Partitio... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7513804 | Electrical connector An electrical connector includes an insulating base and at least one row of conducting terminals. Each row of conducting terminals includes a body portion, a connecting arm located at two ends of the body portion, and a connecting portion. The insulating base includ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7465198 | Press-fit power connector A press-fit power connector includes a female terminal base, a plurality of female power terminals and a plurality of female signal terminals. The female power terminals and the female signal terminals are mounted on the female terminal base. Each female power termi... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7438601 | Connector A connector includes a plurality of first contacts each having a contact arm that contacts a first surface of an object of connection and a plurality of second contacts each having a contact arm that contacts a second surface of the object of connection. The plurali... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435117 | Card connector A card connector comprises an insulative housing having a rear contact-mounting section at the rear of the cavity, a longitudinal side wall section extends forwardly from one end of the rear section at one side of the cavity, a bottom surface for mounting on a circu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7419408 | Stamped grid comprising a fastening element A stamped screen according to the invention has at least one fastening element integral with the screen and is fastened to the associated component without further accessories at the same time as it is inserted into place. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7402049 | Contact for an interposer-type connector array An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) and a plurality of stamped contacts (12) resided therewithin. The conductive contact includes a central spring beam (122), a side spring beam (124) located at one side... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7396263 | Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises a dielectric housing comprising a base portion which comprising a plurality of contact passages, a plurality of conductive contacts retained in said contact passage, wherein a plurality of locating poles extending from the base port... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393251 | Connector A connector comprises a housing including a recess for receiving a mating connector. First contacts with first press-fit sections are press-fitted into the housing. The first contacts include first contact sections extending substantially parallel to the first press... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7371129 | Elevated height electrical connector An electrical connector includes first and second connector bodies which are arranged to first be positioned together, and then separated once electrical contacts have been inserted in at least one of the first and second connector bodies. During, after, or both dur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371131 | Connector having retentive rib A connector includes conductive pins inserted into apertures in a housing. The pins may include a single groove or a pair of opposing grooves in which ribs of the housing are disposed. The ribs may conform to the shape of the grooves to retain the pins in the housin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7361044 | Socket that engages a pin grid array An example socket includes a plurality of contacts and a base. The base includes exterior walls and interior walls which extend between the exterior walls to form openings within the base such that each opening in the base includes one of the contacts. At least some... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357665 | Battery connector A battery connector includes a dielectric housing defining terminal grooves therein to receive plenty of electric terminals. The tops of two sidewalls of each terminal groove extend inwardly to form a pair of withstanding beams. A gap is formed on the front end of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354282 | Electrical connector having blade terminals An electrical power blade connector includes a dielectric housing having a mating cavity for receiving a mating connector inserted into the cavity through an open front end thereof in a mating direction. A pair of blade support arms project forwardly within the cavi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351091 | Header connector A header connector comprises an elongate insulative housing (1) which has longitudinal walls, a plurality of terminals (4) retained in the housing, and the terminals are disposed as two types through hole-type terminals (41, 42) and surface moun... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344417 | DIP connector The DIP connector of the present invention comprises a housing being provided with a receiving chamber into which a counterpart member being to be fitted, and a contact being fitted in a storing concaved part being concaved from the receiving chamber. The storing co... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331820 | Chemically attached coaxial connector A coaxial connector for attaching the end of a coaxial cable to an equipment port includes a tubular post, a coupler, a body member having a cylindrical sleeve, and one or more reservoirs containing a chemical component disposed between the post and the cylindrical ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331830 | High-density orthogonal connector A high-density orthogonal connector is disclosed and may include electrical contacts that are configured to receive contacts from an orthogonal header connector while minimizing signal skew and signal reflection. The electrical contacts in the connector may define c... | 02/19/2008 |
