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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2010
Hiroyuki Hebiguchi, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Shigetoshi Matsuta, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Nobuaki Haga, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Hebiguchi, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Shigetoshi Matsuta, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Nobuaki Haga, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A portable apparatus of the present invention functions as a transmitter and/or a receiver in electric field communication in which communication is performed through a human body by converting an information signal into an electric field signal; is substantially hexahedron-shaped and provided with sides and an display surface allowing information to be viewed; and includes an outer electrode for electric field communication provided on the display surface and a human-body-side electrode for electric field communication provided on at least one of the sides.