Fujitsu Component Limited

Fujitsu Takamisawa Component Limited

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Incorporated

Nagano Fujitsu Component Limited

Norio Endo

Nobuyoshi Shimizu

Takashi Nakajima

Koichi Kondoh

Masanobu Hayama

Satoshi Sakurai

Nobuo Yatsu

Michiko Endo

Tamotsu Koike

Yuriko Nishiyama

Ryoji Kikuchi

Shigemi Kurashima

Takuya Uchiyama

Takeshi Nishino

Daisuke Ichikawa

Yasuo Ootani

Toshiyuki Kiyonari

Toshihiko Yasui

Yoshio Takimoto, Deceased

Shiro Hirota

Syuji Nakamura

Yukihiro Mori

Shuji Nakamura

Sumio Watanabe

Masahiro Yanagi

Naoyuki Nagao

Junichi Maruyama

Fumio Sakurai

Shinichi Ogata

Akihiko Takemae

Hiroshi Shibata

Masayuki Kato

Jun-ichi Maruyama

Shinobu Ueno

Katsuhiko Kawakami

Katsuhilo Kawakami

Yasuharu Sawahara

Daiju Mizumoto

Naoyuki Nagae

Takimoto Taheshi, Heirs

Takafumi Asakura

Shuko Yamaji

Tomoyuki Yokoyama

Masaya Endo

Shinobu Sasaki

A position detecting method for a touchscreen panel includes the steps of (a) determining the presence or absence of contact with the touchscreen panel on a conductive film divided into multiple conductive regions; (b) measuring a time after the detection of the absence of the contact and determining whether the measured time is less than a predetermined time if step (a) determines the absence of the contact; and (c) determining the continuance of the contact if the measured time is less than the predetermined time.

Position detecting method for touchscreen panel, touchscreen panel, and electronic apparatus

An effervescent beverage containing a grain degradation product which contains creamy and tasty foam having a refreshing texture and a new texture of a prolonged creamy-foam retention is formed on the effervescent beverage upon drinking, a method for dispensing and a dispenser of such effervescent beverage are disclosed. According to the present invention, there is provided a method for dispensing the effervescent beverage containing a grain degradation product by cooling the effervescent beverage and pouring it into a vessel to serve, wherein foam having a snow-like refreshing texture and a new texture of a prolonged creamy-foam retention is formed on the effervescent beverage, said method comprising:

Effervescent beverage containing grain degradation product with refreshing foam

A disclosed input apparatus includes an operating part pressed by a user; a first resistance film and a second resistance film facing each other; a measuring unit configured to measure a difference between a first electric potential of a first end of a contact resistance and a second electric potential of a second end of the contact resistance; and a detecting unit configured to obtain pressure information indicative of a pressure load caused by the pressing of the operating part based on the difference in electric potential.

Input apparatus and input method

Disclosed is a touch panel including an upper conductive layer; a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive layer with an interval between the upper conductive layer; a capacitive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position by a capacitive coupling under a condition where a predetermined electric potential is applied to the upper conductive layer; and a resistive sensing unit that detects a coordinate position based on an electric potential at a position where the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer contact under a condition where a potential gradient is generated on either one of the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer.

Touch panel and method of detecting coordinate position

A touchscreen panel includes an upper substrate having a first transparent conductor layer provided on a first base layer, and a lower substrate having a second transparent conductor layer provided on a second base layer. The first and second transparent conductor layers oppose each other via a spacer and make contact when the first base layer is pressed. The first transparent conductor layer is segmented into a plurality of conductive regions that are electrically insulated from each other.

Method of fabricating touchscreen panel by segmenting transparent conductor layer

A key switch device including a key top; a pair of link members connected to the key top and interlocked with each other to guide a vertical motion of the key top; a switch mechanism including a membrane sheet switch capable of opening and closing a contact section of an electrical circuit in accordance with the vertical motion of the key top; a flexible thin film sheet attached to the membrane sheet switch; and a housing attached to the thin film sheet, the housing adapted to connect the link members to the thin film sheet.

Key switch device and keyboard

Touchscreen panel, electronic apparatus and method of fabricating touchscreen panel

A touch panel includes a lower conductive film, four electrodes disposed in edge portions of four sides of the lower conductive film, and an upper conductive film disposed over the lower conductive film so that the upper and lower conductive films are opposed to each other, to detect an electric potential in the lower conductive film when the upper conductive film is in contact with the lower conductive film. The upper conductive film includes split portions containing no transparent conductive material and split conductive portions divided by the split portions. The touch panel is arranged to detect an electric potential of each of contact points in the split conductive portions when the upper and lower conductive films are brought in contact with each other at the contact points, and detect respective coordinates of the contact points based on the electrical potentials.

Touch panel and coordinates detecting method using touch panel

A coordinate detecting device includes a resistive film disposed on a quadrangular substrate; a power source for applying a voltage to the resistive film; four electrodes connected to the power source and disposed in four corners of the resistive film; four switches each disposed between the power source and a corresponding electrode; four ammeters for measuring currents flowing through corresponding electrodes; and a grounded conductive film for detecting coordinates of a contact point on the resistive film when the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film. The voltage is applied sequentially to the electrodes by opening and closing the switches. When the conductive film is brought in contact with the resistive film, the ammeters sequentially measure currents flowing through the corresponding electrodes. The coordinates of the contact point are detected based on positions of the electrodes and resistances obtained using the measured currents.

Coordinate detecting device and method

A thermal head driving method of driving thermal heads is disclosed. The method includes a step of dividing the thermal heads into plural groups, providing for each of the groups a common potential terminal, a step of using a drive circuit to drive the thermal heads of one or more of the groups, and a step of applying an operating voltage to the common potential terminal of said one or more groups driven by the drive circuit.

Thermal head, driving method and thermal head drive circuit

An input system includes an information generation part which generates input information based on a given input operation, a transmission part which transmits signals generated by having a plurality of different carrier frequencies modulated with the input information, and a reception part which receives the transmitted signals and demodulates the signals into the input information.

Input system and input device

A small and thin pressing direction sensor that can continually detect pressing directions in the angle range of 360 degrees is provided. This pressing direction sensor includes a ring-like resistive film pattern, a first electrode pattern, and a conductive member that electrically connects the resistive film pattern and the first electrode pattern when pressed. The voltage of the first electrode pattern represents the pressing direction. This pressing direction sensor may further include a second electrode pattern. A signal representing the pressing force can be obtained from the second electrode pattern when the pressed conductive member is brought into contact with the second electrode pattern.

Pressing direction sensor and input device using the same

An encryption method includes the steps of (a) generating random data including a first part and a second part, the first part specifying an operation to be performed on plain text data and the second part being used in the operation, (b) performing the specified operation on the plain text data using the second part of the random data, and (c) transmitting a result of the operation together with the random data.

Encryption method, communication system, transmission device, and data input device

A data converter is provided, which data converter includes a data conversion unit, a timer unit which counts time, and a lock system which locks a data conversion function of the data conversion unit in a disabled state based on the time counted by the timer unit.

Data converter

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Norio Endo