Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Component Limited

Tohoku Pioneer Corporation

Fujitsu Media Devices Limited

Drnc Holdings, Inc.

Fumihiko Nakazawa

Satoshi Sano

Takashi Katsuki

Yuji Takahashi

Nobuyasu Yamaguchi

Yasuhide Iwamoto

Osamu Tsuboi

Hiromitsu Soneda

Yoshio Satoh

Naoyuki Nagao

Fumitaka Abe

Hiroaki Inoue

Takashi Matsuda

Atsuo Iida

Osamu Toyoda

Toshiaki Tanaka

Hirokazu Aritake

Yutaka Nakamura

Masanori Yachi

Xiaoyu Mi

Akihiko Yabuki

Michiko Endo

Satoshi Sato

Katsuya Irie

Nobuhiko Onda

Toshio Hanazawa

Akihiko Sakaguchi

Hitoshi Okumura

Kunizo Ogoshi

Genichi Matsuda

Mituyoshi Seino

Masao Shibayama

Kimikazu Itoh

Tatsumi Ohtsuka

Masakazu Hori

Satoshi Sasaki

Tamotsu Watanabe

A palpation assisting apparatus includes a synchronization controller configured to synchronize a timing of acquiring pressure data output from a pressure sensor attached to a position in contact with a lesion part with a timing of acquiring positional information of a marker attached to a position corresponding to the pressure sensor, and an entering part configured to store, in a storage part, the pressure data and the positional information of the marker that are acquired at the synchronized timing in association with time information indicating a time at which the pressure data and the positional information are acquired.

Palpation assisting apparatus, palpation assisting system, and palpation assisting method

A tactile sensation providing system includes an electronic device and a tactile sensation providing apparatus, which includes a wearable part worn on fingers, vibrating elements disposed at portions corresponding to the fingers, sensors that detect touches of the fingers onto a manipulation input surface, and a second controlling part able to communicate with a first controlling part. Upon receiving from the second controlling part a signal representing that a touch of one finger is detected by one sensor, the first controlling part obtains, based on data representing the finger and on coordinates detected by a detector, a type of the finger touching the surface and the coordinates where the finger touches the surface, and generates a driving signal representing a tactile sensation corresponding to the data representing the finger, the coordinates, and a displayed image. The second controlling part drives one of the vibrating elements using the driving signal.

Tactile sensation providing system and tactile sensation providing apparatus

An overturn prevention device for an apparatus including a main body horizontally installed, and a tiltable housing being tiltable relative to the main body by a first rotary shaft incorporated in the main body, the overturn prevention device includes: a second rotary shaft disposed in the main body and extending in a direction vertical to the main body; a rotational force transmission mechanism disposed between the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft and configured to rotate the second rotary shaft by transmitting rotation of the first rotary shaft to the second rotary shaft; and an overturn prevention member disposed on the second rotary shaft and configured to protrude from the main body in a tilting direction of the tiltable housing when the second rotary shaft rotates with a tilting operation of the tiltable housing.

Overturn prevention device for apparatus including tiltable housing

The following disclosure provides a power strip including: a busbar electrically connected to a power source; multiple electrical outlets allowing multiple power plugs to be inserted thereinto, respectively; distribution bars which are branched out from the busbar and respectively supply the electrical outlets with electric currents of the power source; and a plurality of electric current measurement units each configured to measure the electric current flowing through a corresponding one of the distribution bars.

Power strip and electric power measurement system

An input apparatus includes a top panel having a manipulation input surface on which a manipulation input is performed; a pressure sensor having two terminals and configured to output a voltage in accordance with a pressure applied by the manipulation input on the manipulation input surface; a switch connected to the two terminals of the pressure sensor and configured to equalize electric potentials between the two terminals when the switch is turned on; and a controller configured to turn on the switch, after the pressure applied on the manipulation input surface is detected based on an output of the pressure sensor, when the manipulation input on the manipulation input surface is stopped or the output of the pressure sensor becomes equal to or less than a predetermined level that represents non-pressing.

Input apparatus

A method of calculating a current correction formula may include first measuring voltage values at each of current measuring parts configured to measure currents in socket parts of a power strip in a state in which no current flows in the socket parts, second measuring the voltage values at each of the current measuring parts in a state in which a current flows in one of the socket parts, and calculating a correction formula formed by a inverse matrix of a matrix having as its elements differences between the voltage values measured by the second measuring and the voltage values measured by the first measuring.

Method of calculating current correction formula for power strip, current measuring method, and power strip

A packaged device of one embodiment includes a device layer section, and first and second packaging members. The device layer section is one where a movable microdevice including a movable part and a terminal part is formed. The first packaging member is joined to the device layer section, and includes a wiring region provided at a position corresponding to the terminal part and a conductive plug extending through the wiring region. The second packaging member is joined to a side of the device layer section opposite the first packaging member.

Packaged device

A power strip includes a casing including a plurality of plug insertion portions each having a first insertion port and a second insertion port into which first and second plug blades of a socket plug are to be respectively inserted, a magnetic core which is provided in each of the plurality of plug insertion portions and includes a first opening into which the first plug blade is to be inserted, a second opening into which the second plug blade is to be inserted, and a slit to communicate between the first plug blade and the second plug blade, and a magnetic sensor provided inside the slit.

Power strip and electrical power measurement system

A power strip includes: a first power line; a second power line between which and the first power line a power supply voltage is applied; a jack portion; a current meter configured to measure a current being supplied to an external electrical device from the jack portion; a first photocoupler including a first light emitting diode connected between the first power line and the second power line and configured to output a first output signal whose level is changed when the power supply voltage exceeds a first threshold; and a computing unit configured to calculate a power value by using instantaneous values of the current measured by the current meter and instantaneous values of the power supply voltage estimated from the length of a period when the level of the first output signal is changed.

Power strip and power measurement method

A power strip includes: jack portions; current meters each configured to measure a current being supplied from the corresponding jack portion to one of external electrical devices, and to output a measurement signal corresponding to a magnitude of the current; and a computing unit configured to obtain instantaneous values of the current at a plurality of time points on the basis of the measurement signal, and to calculate a power value using the instantaneous values. The computing unit configured to obtain the instantaneous values-of the current by using any one of a first zero point and a second zero point as a reference.

A method includes forming grooves in first regions included in a first wafer to form wiring regions defined by the grooves; forming insulating portions in the grooves; joining a surface of the first wafer on which the wiring regions are formed to a first surface of a device wafer including device forming regions after forming the insulating portions; forming through holes in the wiring regions of the first wafer after joining the first wafer to the device wafer, the holes extending through the first wafer; filling the holes with a conductive material; joining a second wafer to a second surface of the device wafer opposite the first surface, the second wafer including second regions; exposing the wiring regions by thinning the first wafer after joining the first wafer to the device wafer; and cutting the device wafer, the first wafer, and the second wafer after thinning the first wafer.

Method of fabricating packaged-device

A packaged device includes a device substrate and a packaging unit. The device substrate includes a first surface and a device formed in the device substrate. The packaging unit includes an insulating layer which faces the device substrate. The insulating layer includes a second surface bonded to the first surface. A metal concentration of at least part of a peripheral surface in the insulating layer is higher than a metal concentration of an end surface on the device substrate side in the insulating layer. An outline of the first surface is retreated inward from an outline of the second surface.

Packaged device and producing method thereof

A burst wave is applied to an excitation element of a touch panel main body from an oscillation section so as to excite surface acoustic waves, and the excited surface acoustic waves are received by a receiving element of the touch panel main body. The received signals are A/D converted by a receiving section, and a control section calculates the contact position and the contact width of the object in contact with the touch panel main body, based on time-series changes in the received strength. Based on the received strength of surface acoustic waves, the control section controls the wave number of the burst wave to be applied to the excitation element.

Touch panel device and contact position detection method

An angular speed sensor includes two oscillating portions arranged to oscillate in X-axis direction and Y-axis direction, where the oscillating portions are spaced from each other in X-axis direction. The sensor also includes two coupling beams capable of producing a standing wave oscillation, elongated in X-axis direction and spaced from each other in Y-axis direction, with the oscillating portions located therebetween. The coupling beams are connected to a supporting substrate via fixing posts. The coupling beams are bridged by first and second link portions, the first link portion being also connected to one of the oscillating portions and the second link portion to the other. The fixing posts are connected to the coupling beams at fixed points of the standing wave oscillation. The link portions include widened portions connected to the coupling beams at the fixed points of the standing wave oscillation.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Fumihiko Nakazawa