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Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Molex Japan Co., Ltd.

Cdr Inc.

Thomson Licensing

Shun Kayama

Yukiko Shimizu

Kouichiro Takashima

Tsutomu Takahashi

Takashi Sawada

Yasuhiro Kataoka

Hiroshi Azuma

Masahiro Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Uchida

Atsushi Takano

Junichi Ohsako

Yoshihiro Tanabe

Minoru Tomita

Satoshi Kushima

Akio Takada

Toshitaka Kawashima

Seiji Muramatsu

Ching Biing Yeo

Toshinori Yamasue

Kazutoshi Yamamoto

Hirokazu Kitamura

Katsuhiro Yoneyama

Hiroshi Ozaki

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Shigeki Motoyama

Koji Yoshida

Hirokazu Nakayoshi

Hideki Okii

Kenji Munekata

Naoyuki Ono

Shinsuke Kunishi

Minoru Nakano

Ryota Odake

Kanzo Okada

Tomisaburo Yamaguchi

Yutaka Okazaki

Masafumi Kikuchi

Yoshisada Okayasu

Motosuke Ohmi

Kazuo Goto

Kunioki Takahashi

Masayuki Sugasawa

Shunji Amano

Kenji Hirano

Masayoshi Iida

Akira Fujino

Mitsuru Shibasaki

Yuuji Arataki

Kazuhiko Takeda

Akira Aso

Cheow Tong Cheng

Toshio Iwata

Hidetoshi Shinozawa

Kiyoshi Tomura

Shinji Kanada

A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.

Touch-sensitive sheet member, input device and electronic apparatus

A press detection sensor contains a base member having predetermined length and width and also having a predetermined shape, a first conductor having predetermined length and being arranged on the base member, and a second conductor that is arranged on the base member with the second conductor being faced to the first conductor. The press detection sensor also contains a conductive contact body that is arranged between the first conductor and the second conductor. The conductive contact body connects the first and second conductors electrically in response to an external force. The press detection sensor further contains a covering member that includes the contact body on the inside thereof. The covering member covers a top of the base member which includes the first and second conductors. The covering member contains at least one of flexibility and elasticity.

Press detection sensor, input device and electronic apparatus

An input device includes an input-sensing unit that contains a capacitive input sensor and a sensitivity-sensing unit that contains a capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input-sensing unit senses position information obtained by touch operation of an operation body to the capacitive input sensor. The sensitivity-sensing unit senses sensitivity information obtained by touch operation of the operation body to the capacitive sensitivity sensor. The input device includes a control unit determining whether or not the output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit is adjusted based on the sensitivity information sensed by the sensitivity-sensing unit and a sensitivity-adjusting unit that adjusts an output level of the position information from the input-sensing unit based on a result of the determination of the control unit. The control unit controls the sensitivity-adjusting unit to adjust the output level of the position information received from the input-sensing unit.

Input device and electronic apparatus using the same

A heat dissipation structure includes a circuit board that is disposed inside an outer casing having a chassis formed with air inlet holes, and in which a first electronic component generating heat when driven and a second electronic component not generating heat when driven are mounted on one surface of a base plate, and a heat sink that releases the heat generated in the first electronic component. Here, in the heat sink, a heat dissipation unit positioned facing the base plate, an eaves portion protruding from the heat dissipation unit, and a pair of enclosing portions protruding from ends of the eaves portion in a direction perpendicular to a protruding direction from the heat dissipation unit, and at least one of the air inlet holes is formed in a position facing the eaves portion.

Heat dissipation structure and electronic apparatus

An optical input device has a display screen, a portion of the display screen being shielded from light by an operating member to implement input processing based on a plurality of input modes. The input device includes an input detection unit including a display unit that displays predetermined input information, and a control unit. The input detection unit detects an area and/or brightness of a light-shielded portion formed on the display screen by the operating member by approaching the display unit. The control unit provides display control of the display unit and input control on the basis of the detected area and/or brightness. The control unit compares the detected area and/or brightness with a predetermined threshold value to select a desired input mode from among the plurality of input modes.

Input device, storage medium, information input method, and electronic apparatus

Disclosed is a piezoelectric pump. The piezoelectric pump includes a pump body, a drive unit, a detection section, and a control unit. The pump body includes a hole for introducing a fluid from outside thereinto and jetting the fluid from inside, a wall portion disposed so as to face the hole, and a piezoelectric body provided on the wall portion to vibrate the wall portion. The drive unit drives the piezoelectric body. The detection section detects a signal corresponding to a discharge rate of the fluid from the hole. The control unit controls a drive voltage and a drive frequency of the drive unit on the basis of the signal.

Piezoelectric pump, cooling device, and electronic apparatus

An input device inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body. The device contains a housing having an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and includes an electrostatic capacitance sheet member which detects a slide position of the operation body to output a position detection signal, and an operation unit that covers an entire surface of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along a sliding direction from one direction of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other direction of the operation surface thereof. The electrostatic capacitance sheet member includes a switch portion that is switched by a press-in operation of the operation body to the operation unit.

Input device and electronic apparatus

Provided is an axial fan apparatus including a housing and an axial-flow impeller. The axial-flow impeller is capable of rotating inside the housing and includes a plurality of axial-flow wings each having a negative pressure generation surface for generating a negative pressure, and an auxiliary vane standing on the negative pressure generation surface at an end portion of each of the plurality of axial-flow wings.

Axial fan apparatus, axial-flow impeller, and electronic apparatus

A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a first raw material member having predetermined hardness and a second raw material member that presents sense of touch. The second raw material member is disposed in the first raw material member. The second raw material member has hardness different from the hardness of the first raw material member.

An information input device is provided which is to make input of information by operating a disk-shaped rotating member. The device includes the rotating member () which is rotatable with one main side thereof being operated, rotation detecting means () for detecting a rotation of the rotating member (), a central switch activator () provided at the center of rotation of the rotating member (), a central switch () which is activated by operating the central switch activator (), and a plurality of peripheral switches () which are turned on when a portion, apart from the center of rotation, of the rotating member () is pressed. Rotating the rotating member and pressing the apart portion makes input of information, and operating the central switch activator sets the information thus entered.

Information input device, and electronic apparatus using same

There is provided an axial fan apparatus including an axial-flow impeller, a drive unit, and a housing. The axial-flow impeller is capable of rotating and includes a plurality of blades inclined with respect to a rotational axis direction. The drive unit rotates the axial-flow impeller. The housing is mounted with the drive unit, and includes a sidewall, and a plurality of slits that circulate gas. The sidewall is provided around the axial-flow impeller. The plurality of slits are provided to the sidewall and inclined with respect to the rotational axis direction in a direction opposed to a direction in which the plurality of blades incline.

Axial fan apparatus, housing, and electronic apparatus

An input device that inputs information by a slide operation depending on an operation body contains a housing including an operation surface, a detection unit that is provided in the housing and detects a slide position inputted by a slide operation depending on the operation body, and an operation unit that covers at least a portion of the detection unit and is slide-operated along the operation surface of the housing. The operation unit has a convex shape which becomes thicker along the sliding direction from one portion of the operation surface of the housing and also which becomes thinner toward the other portion of the operation surface thereof.

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Shun Kayama