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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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