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7629871 Resilient material variable resistor  
A variable resistance device comprises a resistive member having a resistive resilient material. A first conductor is configured to be electrically coupled with the resistive member at a first...
7378608 Stretchable fabric switch  
The present invention provides a stretchable fabric that may serve as a switch device or coupling to an electronic device and a power source by merely stretching or pusing the fabric. The...
7352271 Probe and contour measuring instrument  
A probe body ( 200 ) includes a middle closing portion ( 250 ) formed upright on a connector front portion ( 261 A) and a female thread ( 261 D) into which a male screw ( 110 ) is screwed. A sensor...
7301435 Flexible switching devices  
An electronic resistor user interface comprises flexible conductive materials and a flexible variably resistive element capable of exhibiting a change in electrical resistance on mechanical...
7249649 Occupant sensor for a vehicle restraint system  
An apparatus for sensing an occupant in a vehicle seat for a vehicle occupant restraint system is provided. The apparatus uses sensors to measure seat deflection to determine the presence, weight,...
7248249 Touch panel apparatus and method for controlling the same  
A touch panel apparatus includes a touch panel for recognizing a contact position and a touch panel controller for computing a coordinate value corresponding to the contact position on the touch...
7224257 Physical quantity sensing element having improved structure suitable for electrical connection and method of fabricating same  
A physical quantity sensing element according to the invention includes an insulating layer and a sensing layer. The sensing layer is configured to generate an electrical signal as a function of a...
7213323 Method of forming an electronic pressure sensitive transducer on a printed circuit board  
The cost and complexity of an electronic pressure sensitive transducer are decreased by constructing such a transducer directly on a printed circuit board containing support electronics. Conductive...
7209028 Position sensor with resistive element  
A position sensor comprises a resistive element positionable on a first surface. A pair of leads are on the resistive element, the pair of leads adapted to supply a first voltage, such as by being...
7187264 Foil-type switching element with improved spacer design  
A foil-type switching element comprises a first carrier foil and a second carrier foil arranged at a certain distance from each other by means of a spacer 10 . The spacer 10 comprises at least...
7164342 Load sensor and method of manufacturing the load sensor, paste used for the method, and method of manufacturing the paste  
The present invention relates to a load sensor and provides a highly accurate load sensor with multi-layered wiring at low costs. It provides crystallized glass and non-crystalline glass which are...
7164343 Digital potentiometer  
A variable potentiometer with a wiper terminal and first and second terminals has relay switches for shorting or for unshorting resistors. When resistance is reduced between the wiper and one of...
7161460 Switching element provided with a foil construction  
A switching element provided with a foil construction includes a first supporting foil and a second supporting foil that are kept at a distance from one another via a spacer. The spacer has a...
7161583 Input device and method for detecting contact position  
An input device of the present invention includes a substantially ring-shaped resistor including two pair of electrodes projecting along a Y direction and an X direction orthogonal to the Y...
7154372 Micromechanical flow sensor with tensile coating  
A sensor integrated on a semiconductor device ( 1 ), in particular a flow sensor, comprises a measuring element ( 2 ) on a membrane ( 5 ). In order to prevent a buckling of the membrane ( 5 ) a...
7151431 Resistor element, stress sensor and method for manufacturing them  
A stress sensor in which the direction and magnitude of a stress being applied to a post ( 6 ) bonded to or integrated with the surface of an insulating board ( 3 ) can be grasped from variation in...
7145432 Flexible switching devices  
An electronic resistor user interface comprises flexible conductive materials and a flexible variably resistive element capable of exhibiting a change in electrical resistance on mechanical...
7087848 Multi operating electronic component  
A multi operating electronic component includes a case, a rotary member, a cover member, an operating knob and a rotationally actuated component. In the central hole of the rotary member rotatably...
7080562 High-sensitivity pressure conduction sensor for localized pressures and stresses  
A high-sensitivity pressure conduction sensor is presented. The present invention includes a pair of locally resilient conductive layers and a locally resilient pressure conduction composite...
7069642 Method of fabricating a current control device  
A method of fabricating a current control device is presented. The method impregnates a pressure conduction composite within a current control device with a fluid additive via suffusion. The...
7068142 Pressure-sensitive resistor and pressure-sensitive sensor using the same  
A pressure-sensitive sensor includes two base films opposite to each other, a pair of electrodes provided on the two base films, and first and second pressure-sensitive resistors provided by two...
7064650 Foil-type switching element  
A foil-type switching element comprises a first carrier foil having a first electrode arrangement applied thereon and a second carrier foil having a second electrode arrangement applied thereon,...
7060923 Key  
A key has a varying response depending on the manner of depression. The key comprises at least a base and a switching element arranged curved relative to one another. Between the switching element...
7050045 Miniature highly manufacturable mouse pointing device  
A pointing device may be directly soldered to a printed circuit board. In one embodiment, a bottom substrate defines a sensing region with a plurality of interdigitated conductive trace regions....
6969809 Vehicle seat weight sensor  
A seat weight sensor for detecting the weight of a seat occupant. The weight sensor has a case mounted between a seat pan and a seat member. One or more strain gauge resistors are mounted in the...
6967561 Current control device  
A current control device is described wherein a pressure conduction composite is compressed and decompressed to alter its conductivity and thereby current conduction through the device. The...
6909354 Electronic pressure sensitive transducer apparatus and method for manufacturing same  
The cost and complexity of an electronic pressure sensitive transducer are decreased by constructing such a transducer directly on a printed circuit board containing support electronics. Conductive...
6903561 Circuitry for measuring mechanical stress impressed on a printed circuit board  
A circuit for measuring mechanical stress impressed on a printed circuit board includes a number of electrically conductive pads formed on at least one outer surface of the printed circuit board,...
6888081 Safety contact mat  
A safety contact mat has an upper mat half and a lower mat half with respective mutually facing spaced apart conductive layers, which are to be brought into contact in order to close an electrical...
6867681 Circuit protection device  
A current control device is described wherein a pressure conduction composite is compressed and decompressed to alter its conductivity and thereby current conduction through the device. The...
6794982 Multidirectional input device and electronic apparatus comprising it  
A multidirectional input device includes ring-shaped resistance element layer 18 , first conductive layer 22 and second conductive layer 23 shaping in arcs corresponding to resistance element...
6750415 Input device having an output that varies according to a pressing force  
An input device includes a keytop, an elastic member, a movable electrode and a fixed electrode. The movable electrode is coupled to the elastic member above the fixed electrode. The electrodes are...
6750408 Multi-directional operation switch and multi-directional input device using the same  
In a multi-directional operation switch, an operating disk, upon being pressed at its upper side, tilts to depress a elastic pressing member, thus making hard rings of the driving member to press a...
6737953 Passenger detector  
A description is given of a passenger detector comprising a flexible support of insulating material, at least two electrode structures placed on said insulating substrate at a certain distance from...
6661332 Press-type varistor switch  
A press-type varistor switch is disclosed. A center of an upper cover is formed with a round hole. A head of a silicide cap is embedded into the round hole. Opposite sides of the seat are formed...
6646540 Conductive structures  
A conductive structure is used in electric variable resistance devices to provide changes in electrical resistance with movement and changes in pressure, the variable resistance device comprising...
6607442 Operating apparatus and signal-output-modulating method for the same  
An operating apparatus and a signal-output modulating method therefor allow analogous operations to be implemented by use of press-operational operation elements that have conventionally been used...
6563415 Analog sensor(s) with snap-through tactile feedback  
An analog sensor depressible by a single human finger/thumb. Depressive force is applied to a dome-cap and to analog materials for varying an analog output of the sensor responsive to varying force...
6535104 Multi-axis potentiometer  
A multi-axis potentiometer according to this invention is capable of determining actuator movement along multiple axes. The potentiometer includes a hollow, semi-spherical shell lined internally...
6531951 Force sensor  
The invention concerns a force sensor ( 10 ) comprising a first electrode ( 22 ) and a second electrode ( 24 ) made of conductive material, which are arranged spaced from each other on a first...
6486767 Rotary position sensor using a strain gage  
A rotary position sensor for sensing the position of an attached object. The sensor uses a strain gage to detect the position of the object. The sensor includes a housing and a helical shaped...
6452479 Detector contructed from fabric  
A position sensor is arranged to detect the position of a mechanical interaction, such as the application of manual pressure. A first fabric layer has electrically conductive fibers machined...
6420956 Detection device in which output varies with amount by which elastically deformable contact element is pressed  
A first resistive element and a second resistive element are serially connected to each other, and a contact element having a lower resistivity than the first resistive element elastically contacts...
6411193 Pointing stick with increased sensitivity  
A pointing stick includes a substrate, an input pillar set vertically on the substrate, and at least one strain gauge for sensing pressure and producing pointing signals corresponding to the...
6392527 Impact detection system  
An acceleration change detection system, which in a preferred embodiment is used as an impact detection system, detects whether a deflection sensor is deflected. The magnitude and/or direction of...
6388556 Film pressure sensitive resistor and pressure sensitive sensor  
A film pressure sensitive resistor comprises conductive particles such as carbon black, a binder such as polyester resin, and spherical elastic particles having an average particle diameter of 2...
6373373 Electronic pressure-sensitive device for detecting the magnitude of load as electrical resistance  
Disclosed is an electronic pressure-sensitive device which has a long service life and which is capable of detecting with high accuracy loads of various magnitudes including values in proximity to...
6369689 Linear position sensor using a strain gage  
A linear position sensor for sensing the position of an attached object. The linear position sensor uses a strain gage to detect the position of the object. The sensor includes a housing and a ramp...
6362719 Rotary position sensor using a strain gage  
A rotary position sensor for sensing the position of an attached rotating object. The rotary position sensor uses a strain gage to detect the position of the object. The sensor includes a housing...
6351205 Variable-conductance sensor  
A method of using an analog sensor variably depressed by only a single human finger to variably control an electronic game, the method including the steps: a) depressing, with the human finger, the...
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