Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Kamiya

Yoshiyuki Kago

Atsushi Watanabe

Tomoaki Mizuno

Eiji Nakada

Yoshihiko Inukai

Tokutaro Murase

Masazumi Nakarai

An electronic device intended for use as a tag to be attached to identify contents of the container to which it is attached. In particular, the present invention relates to an electronic tag which has a facility for storing delivery information and is equipped with a responding means for transmitting the delivery information stored therein in response to a query signal received from an interrogating apparatus. Codes, including items such as the names and addresses of the destination and the sender, and a sorting code are written into predetermined blanks of a delivery label, and into a memory. The memory responds to a query by transmitting the sorting information to allow automated sorting. The tag may be initiated only when torn, to extend battery shelf life.

Multiple sheet electronic delivery tag

Information storage medium with electronic and visual areas

A magnetic card reader of the moving head type in which a magnetic head is supported by a leaf spring on a supporting member horizontally. The leaf spring has an aperture at the center thereof to accommodate and support the magnetic head so that two wings of the leaf spring extend outwardly from opposite sides of the magnetic head in directions parallel with the reading direction or the direction in which the magnetic head travels carried by the supporting member. The leaf spring is supported by the supporting member so that a resilience is exerted against the magnetic card and also the magnetic head is rotatable about the axis along the two wings of the leaf spring by twisting the same.

Head mounting arrangement in magnetic card reader

A compact portable card-shaped data memory device which effectively accesses stored coded data has a power supply device consisting of a plurality of horizontally arranged solar cells fitted to one side of a printed circuit board, both sides of which are impressed with printed circuit. The other side of the printed circuit board is fitted with semiconductor chips respectively constituting a semiconductor memory and a microcomputer for converting data read out of said semiconductor memory into serial coded data, and a light-emitting element which is optically controlled in conformity with said coded data. The semiconductor chips and a drive system for the light-emitting element are supplied with electric energy delivered from the power supply device. The circuit element section including the printed circuit board is sealed in a synthetic resin case, thereby constructing the data memory device wholly in a flat card form.

Data memory device

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Hekinan, Japan

Hitoshi Kamiya