Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Jiro Nakasu

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Takashi Ikeda

Hideki Hayashi

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Hiroaki Makino

Wataru Yamada

Masayuki Oishi

Mitsuhiro Shirota

Seiji Hirakawa

Shunji Yamanaka

Kenta Kawahara

Hideki Takahara

Yuji Iwata

Hidetoshi Hatta

Tomoaki Tsukada

Miho Ishikawa

Yasushi Onooka

Koichi Umetsu

Makoto Takemoto

Kunio Kodaka

Yuji Mitani

Junichi Okazaki

Minoru Ishii

A remote control device includes a flat, plate-like display to display a state of settings of the air-conditioning apparatus or a control command; a touch panel provided on or under the display to receive input of a control command for the air-conditioning apparatus through detection of a change in an electric signal, the change occurring when a display position of the display is touched; a transmitter to transmit to the air-conditioning apparatus a signal of the control command input through the touch panel; and a start/stop button provided at a position different from the touch panel and configured to trigger start of operation of or stop of operation of the air-conditioning apparatus.

Remote control device for air-conditioning apparatus

A switching system (,) has, in addition to an ordinary accounting function, an origination-only accounting control unit,to monitor the number of message units used by an origination-only portable telephone (,B) identified by a terminal identification number and to deny the origination of a call by the origination-only portable telephone (,B) upon the increase of the number of used message units to a predetermined number. The origination-only accounting control unit (,) accepts the origination of a call made by the origination-only portable telephone (,B) when a prescribed input about the origination-only portable telephone (,B) is given thereto by a system operator by operating a predetermined terminal device (,) or the like after the denial of origination of a call by the origination-only portable telephone (,B).

Portable telephone system

In a unit body of a portable information terminal is assembled a display and a pressure-sensitive input device overlying the display. An opening and closing cover is attached to the unit body for covering the pressure-sensitive input device. An operating button device provided in the cover exposes, when the cover is closed, its operating surface from the surface of the cover. The operating button device exerts a pressing force applied to the operating surface onto the surface of the pressure-sensitive input device. Thus, with the cover closed, major function entry or data entry can be carried out.

Portable information terminal

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Tokyo, Japan

Jiro Nakasu