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An input device having touched position detecting means for outputting a signal indicating a touched position during a period of time of touch when the touched position detecting means is touched, wherein a character and a symbol are inputted to be displayed on a display screen. Provided are: a virtual keyboard in which each virtual key corresponding to a plurality of characters or symbols is arranged corresponding to each divided area on the touched position detecting means; means for outputting, during the period of time of touch, a code signal indicating a character or a symbol of a virtual key corresponding to an area including the touched position; means for temporarily displaying on the display screen a character or a symbol of the outputted code signal; and means for determinately displaying the character or the symbol on the display screen when the code signal has disappeared.

The invention discloses a motor rotor automatic assembling machine including an iron core feeding device, a main shaft feeding device, a press-fit device, an insulating sheet feeding device, a turning device, a dispensing device, a commutator feeding device, a rotary disc conveyer, and a discharging device. The rotary disc conveyer includes a first rotating disc and a second rotating disc, the iron core feeding device, the main shaft feeding device, the press-fit device, and the insulating sheet feeding device are cooperated on the first rotating disc to assemble an iron core, a main shaft, and an insulation sheet into a half-finished rotor, the turning device conveys the half-finished rotor to the second rotating disc, the insulating sheet feeding device, the dispensing device, the commutator feeding device, and the press-fit device are cooperated on the second rotating disc to assemble the half-finished rotor, a lower insulation sheet, and a commutator into a finished rotor, and the discharging device takes the finished rotor off the second rotating disc and rotates for discharging. The whole machine is compact and reasonable in structure, high in efficiency, low in cost, and high in automation degree.

A land grid array socket contact has a resilient contact that extends parallel to a base plate and is attached to at least one side walls of the base plate by a curved section angled approximately 180 degrees from the at least one side wall. The resilient contact has a free end for contacting a contact pad. A board terminal extends from a lower end of the base plate for connection to a circuit board. In another embodiment, the land grid array socket contact has a resilient contact extending from an upper end of a base plate. The resilient contact has an elongated slit substantially in a center of the resilient contact with respect to a direction of width and a free end for contacting a contact pad. A board terminal extends from a lower end of the base plate for connection to a circuit board.

There is provided a method of operating, a diversity antenna system and arrangement for a mobile station such as mobile phone having a general ground element, the diversity antenna arrangement including at least a pair of antenna elements. Each antenna element comprises a generally L-shaped radiating element, and a conductive leg portion being operatively coupled to the generally L-shaped radiating element.

A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises first accumulation units, of which number is n, holding a digital value of n-bits output from a counter, second accumulation units, of which number is n, holding the digital value of n-bits transferred from the first accumulation units, of which number is n, and an A / D converter writing the digital value of n-bits from the counter based on an image signal generated by pixels into the first accumulation units, of which number is n, wherein correspondingly to each column of the pixels, the first accumulation unit of m-th bit (1≦m≦n) and the second accumulation unit of m-th bit (1≦m≦n) are arranged and paired, and the pairs of which number is n are arranged in a direction along the column of pixels.

An industrial robot including a platform arranged for carrying an object. A first arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a first movement and includes a first actuator having a first path and a first carriage linearly movable along the first path. A second arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a second movement, and includes a second actuator having a second path and a second carriage linearly movable along the first path. A third arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a third movement. A control unit controls the movements of the platform. The first and second arms are arranged rotatable in such way that the platform is movable between opposite sides of a second plane passing through and continuously following the first and second carriage. The control unit includes a control adapted to upon command perform a reconfiguration of the platform and the arms of the robot. The reconfiguration includes moving the platform between opposite sides of the second plane.

A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises first accumulation units, of which number is n, holding a digital value of n-bits output from a counter, second accumulation units, of which number is n, holding the digital value of n-bits transferred from the first accumulation units, of which number is n, and an A / D converter writing the digital value of n-bits from the counter based on an image signal generated by pixels into the first accumulation units, of which number is n, wherein correspondingly to each column of the pixels, the first accumulation unit of m-th bit (1≦m≦n) and the second accumulation unit of m-th bit (1≦m≦n) are arranged and paired, and the pairs of which number is n are arranged in a direction along the column of pixels.

A lens unit includes a lens barrel, an imaging system arranged therein; a movable part having a movable lens, moved in an optical axis with respect to the lens barrel; a linear actuator for moving the movable part in the optical axis direction; and a biasing plate spring having a holding section that holds the movable part, spring sections that can be resiliently deformed and bias the movable part in the optical axis direction, and attached sections that are attached to the lens barrel, the thickness direction of the plate spring coinciding with the optical axis, wherein the holding section of the biasing plate spring is formed into a circular arc; and at least a portion of the spring sections of the plate spring are formed into a shape extending in a direction substantially along the holding section on the outer peripheral side of the holding section.

An industrial robot including a platform arranged for carrying an object. A first arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a first movement and includes a first actuator having a first path and a first carriage linearly movable along the first path. A second arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a second movement, and includes a second actuator having a second path and a second carriage linearly movable along the first path. A third arm is arranged for influencing the platform in a third movement. A control unit controls the movements of the platform. The first and second arms are arranged rotatable in such way that the platform is movable between opposite sides of a second plane passing through and continuously following the first and second carriage. The control unit includes a control adapted to upon command perform a reconfiguration of the platform and the arms of the robot. The reconfiguration includes moving the platform between opposite sides of the second plane.

A pair of preferably substantially buoyant-in-water hand pliers comprising a pair of non-metallic lever members each having a handle portion and a jaw portion and formed of material preferably having a density greater than water. The lever members are pivotally connected together at common central portions between the jaw and handle portions. Each handle portion preferably has one or more outwardly opening cavities formed into a side surface of the handle portions. An elongated tubular sheath preferably formed of material buoyant in water covers and sealingly encloses the cavities whereby the effective density of the pliers is less than that of water. An effective, durable, non-corrosive wire cutting arrangement is also provided, the components uniquely configured and supported in the non-metallic jaw portions.

A method for evaluating a cutting arrangement for a drill bit includes selecting a cutting element arrangement for the drill bit and calculating a score for the cutting arrangement. This method may be used to evaluate the cutting efficiency of various drill bit designs. In one example, this method is used to calculate a score for an arrangement based on a comparison of an expected bottomhole pattern for the arrangement with a preferred bottomhole pattern. The use of this method has lead to roller cone drill bit designs that exhibit reduce tracking over prior art bits.

A method for producing hot water and a device especially for carrying out the method are provided. The method utilizes combined heat resources of solar energy and heat pump in the manner of heating water at multiple stages and accumulating energy. The device comprises solar energy collector, heat pump, electrical heater, water tank, and control unit. The device also includes water-heating tanks with multiple stages. A heating means with multiple stages at different temperatures is formed either by the solar energy collector or by the collector and the heat pump. The outputting end of the two or more heating stages constituted by the solar energy collector or by the collector and the heat pump is connected through ducts to the corresponding water-heating tanks. A predetermined amount of produced water heated at multiple stages is respectively stored in the water-heating tanks. Compared with the prior art, the present invention is endowed with the performance of making use of the solar energy to the greatest extent and utilizing off-peak electricity more efficiently as a supplementary heating means. Furthermore, the arranging fee of the device is reduced and its adaptation of mounting is improved.

The present invention, when at least one from among chat participants requests recording of data generated by the chat participants in an environment in which a messenger bot participates in a chat, registers at least a portion of the generated data as recorded data in a database, provides a transaction ID indicating location in the database of the data registered therein to at least one participant from among the chat participants, determines, in response to a recorded data-related verification request, whether input data included in the verification request corresponds to the recorded data, and, if the input data corresponds to the recorded data, then concludes the recorded data-related verification to have been successful.

There is provided a method of operating, a diversity antenna system and arrangement for a mobile station such as mobile phone having a general ground element, the diversity antenna arrangement including at least a pair of antenna elements. Each antenna element comprises a generally L-shaped radiating element, and a conductive leg portion being operatively coupled to the generally L-shaped radiating element.

The present invention is intended to improve durability and operability of a forceps manipulator, as well as to facilitate roll motions of the forceps manipulator. In the forceps manipulator, a flexible shaft 34 is connected to a rotating joint unit 26 for transmitting a driving force from a vane motor 40 to the rotating joint unit 26 through throughholes 18a, 22a of machined springs 18b, 22b which respectively constitute flexible first and second joints 18, 22.

The invention provides a hotel room reservation information transfer method. A geographical location in a request sent by a user is automatically identified, a room information list for the selection of the user is generated, a room can be effectively selected according to the states of rooms for reservation, the user only needs to initiate a query request to a hotel room reservation server before check in to obtain a two-dimensional code electronic key, the user only needs to verify the two-dimensional code electronic key to open the hotel room to check in without performing room reservation, identity information registration, room card issue and other procedures on a hotel reception desk, therefore the wait and the arrangement of staff at the hotel reception desk are reduced, the user efficiency can be effectively improved, and the hotel operation cost is reduced. The invention further discloses a corresponding hotel room reservation information transfer system.

An electric vehicle includes a vehicle body frame; an electric motor; a swing arm pivotally supporting a rear wheel at a rear end thereof; a drive shaft for transmitting the driving force of the electric motor to the wheel; and a suspension connecting the vehicle body frame and the swing arm together. The electric motor is set in a longitudinal layout in which a rotating drive shaft is disposed in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and is offset from a center to either of left and right sides in a vehicle width direction. The suspension is disposed under the electric motor and the drive shaft, and on the inner sides of the electric motor and the drive shaft in the vehicle width direction, and overlapping the positions of the electric motor and the drive shaft in the front-rear direction.

PCT No. PCT / JP98 / 04310 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 9, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 9, 1999 PCT Filed Sep. 25, 1998 PCT Pub. No. WO99 / 16133 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 1999An optical module, including a plurality of optical devices and a plurality of circuit devices, which is suitable for a smaller size and a higher density, and a lead frame for the optical module are provided. The optical module comprises optical devices, circuit devices 30, 32 electrically connected to the optical devices; a lead frame mounting these devices on the same main surface; and a first encapsulating resin body 66, transparent to light processed by the optical devices, for encapsulating the optical devices. The lead frame has a single first die pad for mounting a plurality of optical devices; a plurality of second die pads 4, 6 each for mounting a circuit device; connection lead groups 40, 42, whose number is the same as that of the second die pads, having a plurality of connection leads 44, 48 for electrically connecting the optical devices mounted on the first die pad to the circuit devices mounted on the second die pads 4, 6; and wiring leads 50, 51 arranged so as to face the respective side faces of the second die pads 4, 6. In the optical module, the optical devices are connected to the wiring leads 50, 51 by way of the connection leads 44, 48.

An electric machine having a rotor and a stator that encloses the rotor, and having a first flange arrangement on at least one end face of the stator, wherein the first flange arrangement has a first flange component that has a connecting surface which adjoins the first end face of the stator and whose geometry is adapted to the geometry of the end face of the stator so that a stator winding, which is wound onto the stator and the adjoining connecting surface, connects the stator and the first flange component to one another.

A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels for converting analog image signals from the pixels into digital signals including a higher digit bit and a lower digit bit in time series. The A / D converter includes a first holding unit for holding the higher digit bit of the digital signal, a second holding unit for holding the lower digit bit of the digital signal, a third holding unit for holding the digital signal from the first holding unit, and a fourth holding unit for holding the digital signal from the second holding unit. A first pair including the first and third holding units, and a second pair including the second and fourth holding units are arranged in a direction along the column of the two-dimensional array of pixels.

A head rest device that improves reliability of detecting a head on the basis of a change in capacitance without complicating a wiring structure. A head rest device is provided with a head rest rear portion configured to be supported to a seat back, and a head rest front portion freely moving forward and backward between a fully-closed position coming close to the head rest rear portion and a fully-open position separated from the head rest rear portion. The head rest front portion is moved by an actuator. The head rest front portion has a sensor electrode structured such that its capacitance is changed as a head of an occupant approaches, and an ECU controlling the actuator so as to move the head rest front portion and detecting the approach of the head of the occupant on the basis of a change of the capacitance of the sensor electrode thereon.

A spatial light modulator includes a prism group and satisfies either of the following conditionsd<0.95×λ / (2×(n−1)),d>1.05×λ / (2×(n−1))where d is a distance between a reference surface and a flat surface, λ is a wavelength of an incident light, and n is a refractive index of the prism group.

A coupling arrangement includes a first clutch device for establishing a working connection between an electric machine and an internal combustion engine and a second clutch device for establishing a working connection between at least one of the machines and a takeoff. Each of the two clutch devices has its own clutch components in the form of at least one piston and a predetermined number of clutch elements. By means of the piston in question, a pressure space is at least essentially sealed off from a cooling space, which holds the clutch elements. Each of the pressure spaces of the two clutch devices has its own supply line, whereas only one of the cooling spaces of the two clutch devices has its own supply line, the cooling space of the other clutch device being connected by a line leading to the cooling space of the first-mentioned clutch device.

To prevent breakage of a membrane probe during a probe test using a probe card having the membrane probe, appearance of a main surface of a wafer as a test object is tested by an appearance tester 51, and results of bad appearance such as adhesion of a foreign substance to the main surface of the wafer and abnormality in shape of bump electrodes over the main surface of the wafer are collected as wafer map data according to arrangement of respective chips in a plane of the wafer, then the wafer map data are transmitted to a probe tester 53 via a server 52, and the probe tester 53 omits the probe test for chips in which bad appearance was detected, and concurrently performs the probe test to other chips in which bad appearance was not detected, based on the wafer map data.

A pair of preferably substantially buoyant-in-water hand pliers comprising a pair of non-metallic lever members each having a handle portion and a jaw portion and formed of material preferably having a density greater than water. The lever members are pivotally connected together at common central portions between the jaw and handle portions. Each handle portion preferably has one or more outwardly opening cavities formed into a side surface of the handle portions. An elongated tubular sheath preferably formed of material buoyant in water covers and sealingly encloses the cavities whereby the effective density of the pliers to less than that of water. An effective, durable, non-corrosive wire cutting arrangement is also provided, the components uniquely configured and supported in the non-metallic jaw portions.

A rear-illuminated-type photodiode array has (a) a first-electroconductive-type semiconductor substrate, (b) a first-electroconductive-type electrode that is placed at the rear side of the semiconductor substrate and has openings arranged one- or two-dimensionally, (c) an antireflective coating provided at each of the openings of the first-electroconductive-type electrode, (d) a first-electroconductive-type absorption layer formed at the front-face side of the substrate, (e) a leakage-lightwave-absorbing layer that is provided on the absorption layer and has an absorption edge wavelength longer than that of the absorption layer, (f) a plurality of second-electroconductive-type regions that are formed so as to penetrate through the leakage-lightwave-absorbing layer from the top surface and extend into the absorption layer to a certain extent and are arranged one- or two-dimensionally at the positions coinciding with those of the antireflective coatings at the opposite side, and (g) a second-electroconductive-type electrode provided on the top surface of each of the second-electroconductive-type regions.

In a supply arrangement for supplying a solution containing a reducing agent, in particular urea, to an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine wherein a supply line extending from a storage tank to an injector which is connected to the exhaust gas system includes an operating tank and a dosing arrangement, a return line extends between the dosing arrangement and the storage tank and the dosing arrangement includes a directional valve for directing solution to the injector during a first operating mode in which the engine is operating and, in a second operating mode in which the engine is shut down, directing the solution back to the storage tank for emptying the operating tank.

In a vehicle air conditioner, two foot openings are provided in right and left wall portions of a case, and are opened and closed by two foot doors, respectively. Each door surface of the foot doors is moved along a surface of the right and left wall portions for opening and closing the foot openings. A face opening is provided in a top wall part of the case to be opened an closed by a face door. An operation locus of the foot doors is overlapped with that of the face door when being viewed from a direction perpendicular to the door surface of the foot door, while the face door is operated between the foot doors to have a clearance between the face door and each foot door.