Nissan Motor Company Limited

Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.

Fujitsu Corporation

Tyco Electronics Corporation

Fujitsu General Limited

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Elo Touchsystems, Inc.

Touch Panel Systems, K.k.

Touch Panel Systems Corporation

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Hiroyuki Hirano

Sigeaki Yamamuro

Yoshiro Morimoto

Haruyoshi Kumura

Keiju Abo

Joel Christopher Kent

Daniel H Scharff

Ting Gao

Jeffrey T Haller

James L Aroyan

Timothy O Avery

Masaki Yamada

Tomonori Kojima

Hirokazu Matsuzaki

Masanori Murakami

Yoichi Tanabe

Toshiaki Tanno

Yoshiaki Kato

Charles Dudley Copper

Robert J Adler

Noboru Hattori

Nobuteru Hitomi

James Roney

Naoko Okitsu

Shoji Nojiri

Hisashi Kitahara

Paulo I Gomes

Christopher William Dews

Yoshiharu Kano

Hitoshi Shirai

Paul Jerome Fehrenbach

Makoto Fujisawa

Yuji Gotoh

Satoshi Inoue

Yoshiharu Kan'o

James Aroyan

Timothy Avery

Keisuke Matsui

An acoustic touch apparatus is provided that includes a substrate capable of propagating surface acoustic waves, such as Rayleigh-type or Love-type waves. The substrate has a front surface, a back surface, and a curved connecting surface formed between the front surface and the back surface. The apparatus also includes at least one acoustic wave transducer and at least one reflective array, the acoustic wave transducer and the reflective array behind the back surface of the substrate. The acoustic wave transducer is capable of transmitting or receiving surface acoustic waves to or from the reflective array. The reflective array is capable of acoustically coupling the surface acoustic waves to propagate from the back surface and across the front surface via the curved connecting surface. Various types of acoustic touch apparatus with edge sensitive touch functions can be provided, according to specific embodiments.

Bezel-less acoustic touch apparatus

A touchscreen system comprises a touch area. At least one transmitter is positioned proximate to outer edges of the touch area for transmitting first beams in a first direction. At least one beam splitter is positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for splitting the first beams into at least second and third beams that travel through the touch area in at least second and third directions, respectively. The at least one beam splitter comprises a plurality of deflecting elements. Receivers are positioned proximate to the outer edges of the touch area for receiving the at least second and third beams.

Touchscreen for detecting multiple touches

Radial transducers are provided for acoustic touch sensors. Different radial transducer arrangements may allow for locating multiple simultaneous touches without ambiguity, in some embodiments without a bezel. Instead of transmitting acoustic waves along a line to be reflected at multiple points, surface acoustic waves are transmitted in a radial wave pattern. Surface acoustic waves are transmitted along different angles spread out over at least part of the touch region. Various techniques may be used to generate the radial wave pattern, such as a convex wedge of a wedge transducer, interference patterns, a curved piezoelectric element, a curved reflector, a curved edge of the substrate, a curved grating, or one or more lenses. These devices for controlling the spread of the surface acoustic waves may alternatively be used for control of the surface acoustic rays for transmission along a single line or just along two lines (e.g., X and Y axes).

Radial transducer for acoustic wave touch sensor

Systems and related methods providing for touch sensors having a waveguide reflective array within a major reflective array are discussed herein. A touch sensor may include a substrate configured to propagate surface acoustic waves. The substrate may include a front surface, a back surface including the reflective arrays, and a connecting surface joining the front surface and the back surface. The reflective arrays may be configured to cause the surface acoustic waves to propagate from the back surface, via the connecting surface, to the front surface. The touch censor may further include circuitry configured to determine a coordinate of a touch event on the front surface based on received attenuations in the surface acoustic waves.

Segmented waveguide core touch sensor systems and methods

A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves and includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region. A first sidewall intersects the first surface along a first edge. The first edge is configured to propagate a first acoustic wave along the first edge. The first acoustic wave may be a one-dimensional edge wave. A wave converter converts the first acoustic wave to a second acoustic wave, and the first surface is configured to propagate the second acoustic wave across the touch sensitive region.

Acoustic touch sensor utilizing edge waves

In a method for manufacturing an axial air-gap electronic motor, a plurality of core member and a plurality of dummy members are prepared, wherein each of the dummy members has a shape same as that of the core members. Then, the plurality of core members is arranged such that teeth surfaces of the core members face each other, and the dummy member is arranged between predetermined core members. Thereafter, a coil is wound from one end side toward the other end side of the core members through the dummy member continuously without cutting. A part of the coil corresponding to a transition wire set between the core members is wound on the dummy member.

Method for manufacturing an axial air-gap electronic motor

In an axial air-gap electronic motor in which a teeth surface of a stator and a magnet surface of a rotor are arranged opposedly along the axis line direction of an output shaft of the rotor with a predetermined gap being provided therebetween, the stator has a plurality of core members connected in a ring form with the axis line being a center, and each of the core members is provided with a connecting device for connecting the teeth surfaces to each other in an opposed state. In order to shorten the wire winding time and reduce the assembling manpower for the core members, a stator is formed by connecting a plurality of core members in a ring form with the axis line being a center, and locking ribs are provided as connecting devices for connecting the core members to each other in a rod form along the axis line direction.

Axial air-gap electronic motor

Two groups of inclined lines, which are included in a spurious wave scattering means, are formed at opposite angles with respect to each other in the vicinity of an upper edge of a substrate. The angles of the inclined lines are such that they are close to perpendicular toward the central portion of the substrate, and gradually decrease toward the edges thereof. In a similar manner, two other groups inclined lines, which are also included in the spurious wave scattering means, are formed at opposite angles with respect to each other, with gradually changing angles. The spurious waves that reach these regions are diffuse by the inclined lines, so that they are not propagated to converters (sensors). Three rectangular spurious wave scattering means, formed by inclined lines, inclined at angles other than 45&#xb0;, also function to diffuse and eliminate spurious waves that propagate along the front surface of the substrate.

Acoustic wave touch detecting apparatus

An FPC is constructed of two FPC branches, and a connection line that connects to a controller. Printed wiring of the connection line includes ten printed wires. The central four printed wires are signal reception wires, which are connected to two converters (sensors). Grounding wires are provided on both sides of the four signal reception wires. Two outer signal wires are provided adjacent to the grounding wires, respectively toward the outsides thereof. Further, two more grounding wires are provided adjacent to the outer signal wires, respectively on the outsides thereof. This construction results in shielding of all of the signal wires. This relationship is maintained in the FPC branches as well.

A touch panel comprises a substrate allowing acoustic wave to be propagated and a transducer , mounted to this substrate, for transmitting or receiving the acoustic wave. A chamfered portion is formed in the end face or the corner portion of the substrate to make the acoustic wave turn around and be propagated from the front surface to the rear surface through the end face of the substrate . The acoustic wave propagated through the chamfered portion is received by the transducer placed on the rear surface of the substrate . The radius (R) of the chamfered portion of the substrate is 0.5 mm or more. This touch panel may prevent from forming raised portions on the front surface of the propagation medium, so that the touch panel may be enhanced in applicability to thin LCD monitors, and simplified in structure.

Touch panel

In a synchronous operation system, rotating positions of two rotating elements MSP and SSP driven by induction motors IM.sub.1 and IM.sub.2 are maintained in a predetermined positional relation, what is called, a synchronous control by a position adjuster 7. A gain compensating circuit 10 for adjusting an output of the position adjuster 7 by using a detected speed of one rotation element SSP as a parameter is provided, and the gain compensating circuit 10 adjusts the output of the position adjuster 7. Thus, a slippage of the induction motor is compensated in a speed region where the position variation of the two rotating elements becomes excessively large, or in a high speed region (constant output region) exceeding a basic rotation speed in case the synchronous control is carried out by using an induction motor and an invertor for controlling a primary frequency of the induction motor.

Synchronous operation system

A hydraulic control system comprises a distributor valve including a valve body formed with a first port communicating with a pressure regulator and a second inlet port. The valve body is also formed with a plurality of outlet ports communicating with corresponding frictional elements, respectively. A solenoid operated relief valve is fluidly disposed between the pressure regulator and the second inlet port of the valve body. The distributor valve includes a rotary valve element operatively connected with a stepping motor. The rotary valve element is rotatably disposed within a bore of the valve body and has a plurality of angular positions for connecting the outlet ports to the first inlet port, second inlet port and drainage, selectively. The solenoid of the relief valve is of the proportioning type and is controlled by a control unit. The stepping motor is also controlled by the control unit.

Transmission shift control valve having fluid pressure distributor valve

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Yoshikazu Tanaka