Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Zebra Co., Ltd.

Toshiaki Tsuchiya

Masashi Shimakata

Hitoshi Ando

Katsuaki Kawamura

Ichiro Hatano

Takao Inoue

Naoko Nakamura

Mitsuo Syoji

Shigeru Tsujimura

Yuichiro Shioya

Keiichi Kuroda

Tooru Yoshihara

To make it possible to easily change a writing line width. A ballpoint pen chip that brings a front half part side of a transfer ball into contact with an inward annular protrusion on a front end side in a chip body from a backward side of the inward annular protrusion and receives a rear half part side of the transfer ball with a front end part of a receiving member. The receiving member includes, on a front end side thereof, a reduction part gradually reduced in a cross-sectional area forward. A front-most end part of the reduction part is disposed backward from the transfer ball. A portion of the receiving member further on a rear side than the reduction part is unretreatably fixed to the chip body and configured to elastically contract when a pressing force is received from the transfer ball.

Ballpoint pen chip and writing utensil equipped with the ballpoint pen chip

In recording an object image by the image pickup device body, the position detection means detects the present location of the image pickup device body to record the resulting position data at the same time when the object image is recorded onto the image recording medium by the recording means.

Image pickup device for automatically recording the location where an

A GPS receiver and related method for positioning on the Globe. The GPS receiver receives satellite signals in a sequential manner with a plurality of antennas, whereby any of the plurality of antennas which receives satellite signals from the maximum number of GPS satellites is selected by an antenna switching unit under the control of a control unit, a combination of GPS satellites having the smallest PDOP value or the signal strength in due order is selected by the control unit from among all of GPS satellites in contact with respective antennas when each of the antennas fails to receive satellite signals transmitted by the predetermined minimum number of GPS satellites. The related positioning method is for use with a motor vehicle-mounted GPS receiver having a plurality of receiving channels, wherein each receiving channel independently receives satellite signals from the GPS satellites in contact, a required number of GPS satellites which are currently considered to be the most suitable for positioning in view of PDOP value are selected from among all of GPS satellites in contact through each receiving channel, and thereby a GPS satellite other than the selected ones may be substituted for the obstructed GPS satellite for carrying out the positioning by making use of navigation data of the newly selected GPS satellite without any intermission.

Apparatus and method for positioning of a GPS receiver

A GPS receiver includes a power supplying status detector for deriving a power-on or power-off signal by detecting a power supplying status of the GPS receiver, a clock for measuring time, a memory controller for controlling a nonvolatile memory upon receiving the power-off signal to store a time measured by the clock when the power is turned off or a time when the last ephemeris data is obtained and the last ephemeris data, and a position calculating circuitry for calculating the position of the user station upon receiving the power-on signal. A time duration is calculated from the time measured by the clock and the time stored in the nonvolatile memory. If it is determined that the measured time duration is shorter than a predetermined period of time, the positioning is performed based on the respective ephemeris data stored in the nonvolatile memory, whereas if it is determined that the measured time duration is no less than the predetermined period of time, the positioning is performed based on ephemeris data newly collected from the respective GPS satellites.

GPS receiver

The microstrip antenna embodying the present invention employs a dielectric material that forms part of a motor vehicle body shell as a dielectric composing element thereof. The motor vehicle-mounted GPS receiver comprising an outer unit, an inner unit, a wireless signal transfer device for transferring signals between the outer unit and the inner unit, and a power source for supplying an electric power to the outer unit, whereby the signal transfer device is provided by a radio receiver installed in the inner unit or by a coupling capacitor consisting of a pair of flat plates and the dielectric motor vehicle body shell sandwiched therebetween. According to the present invention, there is no need of providing the finished motor vehicles with through holes and it is quite simple to equip the finished motor vehicle with the GPS receiver.

Motor vehicle-mounted radio wave receiving GPS apparatus requiring no

A communications system for identifying a responding station called by a communications system caller station over a call channel and a plurality of speech channels. The system transmits information from the caller station, such as the selected speech channel and the designated responding station through the call channel, and receives information from a responding station on the selected speech channel. The communication between the communications system and the responding station on the selected speech channel is enabled only when information from the responding station is identical to information of the designated responding station transmitted from the communications system.

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Saitama, Japan

Toshiaki Tsuchiya