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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 |
| 8330586 | Systems and methods for programming of a cooling fan via a serial port communication mode Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method that comprises, based upon receipt of a mode command, changing an operating mode of a fan motor controller of a fan to a serial port communication protocol, programming a memory of the fan motor controller with ... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8310389 | Hysteretic inductive switching regulator with power supply compensation A system including is plurality of resistors, a plurality of comparators, and a decoder module. The resistors are connected in series between a supply voltage and a common voltage. A first input of each comparator is connected to a reference voltage. A second input ... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8278861 | External disturbance detection system and method for two-phase motor control systems A system includes a power control module, a period determination module, and a control module. The power control module controls current through stator coils of a motor to rotate a rotor. The period determination module determines a first length of time between a fi... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8277198 | Fan motor control systems A control system for a fan includes a control housing that is external to a fan housing for the fan. At least one fan control module is within the control housing and communicates remotely with terminals within the fan housing via at least one wire. The at least one... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8269440 | Motor speed control system and method without pulse-width modulation A motor control system includes a power control module and a detection module. The power control module controls power applied to first and second stator coils of a motor to rotate a rotor. The rotor induces voltages in the first and second stator coils when the rot... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8174863 | Circuits and methods for multiple programmable memory using one-time programmable memory Circuits and methods for utilizing multiple programmable memory using one-time programmable (OTP) memory in a fan controller. The fan controller generally includes a plurality of OTP memories, each capable of being programmed once and only once; a state machine conf... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164285 | External disturbance detection system and method for two-phase motor control systems A system includes a power control module, a period determination module, and a control module. The power control module controls current through stator coils of a motor to rotate a rotor. The period determination module determines a first length of time between a fi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8129969 | Hysteretic inductive switching regulator with power supply compensation A voltage regulator includes a converter module, N comparators, and a decoder module. The converter module includes (N+1) resistors connected in series between a supply voltage and a common voltage, where N is an integer greater than 1. Each of the (N+1) resistors h... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8044616 | Method and apparatus for initializing operation of a disk drive A system for controlling a disk in a disk drive includes a motor control circuit and a first circuit that retrieves firmware speed control instructions from non-volatile memory. During retrieval of the firmware speed control instructions, at least one of the motor c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7859244 | Self configuring voltage regulators Some of the embodiments of the present invention provide a voltage regulator comprising a first driver, a second driver, and a controller configured to control the first driver and the second driver to selectably operate in one of a plurality of operating modes, inc... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7808193 | Motor spindle control system and method In a motor having a number of poles that have nominally equiangularly-spaced positions that in fact deviate from those positions, the actual periods between zero-crossings of the back-EMF generated during pole-pair interactions are measured. The ratios of the variou... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7755432 | Short circuit protection circuits and methods In one embodiment the present invention includes a circuit comprising an amplifier, a first monitor circuit, a second monitor circuit, a third monitor circuit, and a control circuit. The amplifier comprises a first transistor and a second transistor driven by first ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7468590 | Method and apparatus for initializing operation of a disk drive A motor controller comprises an angular position module that determines an angular position of a disk. A spin-up module performs a spin-up of the disk. A ramp-up module ramps up a speed of the disk after the spin-up. A speed control module controls the speed of the ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7332883 | Method and apparatus for initializing operation of a disk drive Disk drives such as hard (magnetic) disk drives take a certain amount of time to initialize and “spin up” to the operational rotational speed of the disk or disks, thereby creating a time lapse from power up to when data can first be read from or written to the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7274162 | Motor spindle control system and method In a motor having a number of poles that have nominally equiangularly-spaced positions that in fact deviate from those positions, the actual pole positions are determined by measuring the periods between zero-crossings of the back-EMF generated during pole-pair inte... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7161757 | Method and apparatus for controlling a disk drive under a power loss condition A method for controlling a motorized data-storage device, including extracting energy from a spindle motor to drive a positioning motor of the data-storage device and other components, such as circuitry. In normal operation of one embodiment, a disk is rotated at a ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6700344 | Method of controlling the speed of an arm of a disk drive A system for controlling the speed of an arm of a disk drive, including a feedback circuit for generating a feedback signal representative of the speed of the arm, and a drive circuit for comparing the feedback signal with a predetermined command signal r... | 03/02/2004 |
