Abstract: The invention provides an antenna disclosed on or in a vehicle window glass, e.g. an automobile rear window glass, for receiving FM broadcast waves. The antenna has a main element, which extends horizontally from a side marginal region of the glass pane to a middle region but does not intersect the longitudinal center axis of the glass pane, and a phase adjusting element which extends parallel to the main element from the same side marginal region and is connected at its end in the side marginal region to the main element by a perpendicular line. The feed point is connected to an arbitrary point on the perpendicular line. The main element may be folded so as to have at least one horizontally extending turn-back part. The phase adjusting element may extend to the opposite side marginal area of the glass pane and may be folded so as to have a turn-back part which extends horizontally without intersecting the center axis of the glass pane.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrochromic (EC) display device having a transparent electrode layer coated with a first EC material which takes on color in its electrochemically oxidized state, such as Prussian blue, and an opposite transparent electrode layer coated with a second EC material which takes on color in its reduced state, such as WO.sub.3. For use in initial bleaching or coloration of one of the two EC layers, an auxiliary electrode is disposed in a marginal region of the space between the two opposite electrodes, and an electrolyte occupies the remaining space. An insulating covering permeable to ions intervenes between the electrolyte and the body of the auxiliary electrode, and an insulating layer substantially impermeable to ions intervenes between the auxiliary electrode body and each transparent electrode layer or the overlying EC layer to prevent leakage current.

Abstract: The invention relates to an antenna disposed on or in a vehicle window glass such as the rear window glass or the windshield of an automobile to receive FM radio and/or TV broadcast waves. A principal element of the antenna is a transparent and conductive film in the shape of a quadrilateral having a horizontal upper side. The conductive film occupies a major and central area of the window glass at a distance not less than 15 mm from each edge of the glass. A feeding bar formed of a strip of a low-resistivity material is attached to the conductive film so as to extend horizontally along at least a portion of the upper side of the conductive film, and a lead connects the feeding bar to a feeding point on the window glass. A good position of the junction point of the lead and the feeding bar is in the middle of the width of the window glass.

Abstract: Injection of a functional liquid into a display device cell having an inlet opening and a relatively narrow space between front and back substrates. The liquid is a liquid crystal for a liquid crystal display device or an electrolyte solution for an electrochromic device. The cell is placed in a chamber such that the inlet opening is in an uppermost section of the cell. Also a vessel containing the liquid is placed in the chamber, and vacuum is created in the chamber. In that state the inlet opening of the cell is connected to the liquid in the vessel by a pipe. After that the lever of the liquid surface in the vessel is suitably varied with respect to the level of the inlet opening of the cell by vertically moving the vessel containing the liquid and/or the cell, while an inactive gas is gradually introduced into the chamber to produce a controlled pressure difference between the interior of the cell and the inactive gas atmosphere in the chamber.

Abstract: An automotive window glass antenna incorporating in a window glass a first antenna possessing a horizontal part and a vertical part to form a T-shape, a second antenna for phase compensation comprising at least one horizontal antenna wire disposed on one side of the vertical part of the first antenna and connected thereto, a third antenna for impedance matching disposed on the other side of the vertical part of the first antenna and connected thereto, and a feed point connected to the third antenna, said the second and the third antennas being asymmetric with respect to the vertical part of the first antenna.

Abstract: A key switch device having a key being depressable to allow a movable contact to come into contact with a pair of fixed contacts. The key is elastically supported in an opening of a housing plate and is prevented from slipping out of the opening by engagement with the key and the housing plate. The housing plate has a plurality of guide grooves formed in the inner surface of the opening in parallel with a center axis of the opening. A plurality of guide projections are formed on the lower side of the key and are slidably fitted into the guide grooves, respectively. The key can be smoothly and straightly moved along the center axis of the opening by a force applied to any point on the upper surface of the key without being inclined from the center axis.

Abstract: A key switch device having a plurality of keys and a plurality of light emission diode tips for indicating the keys operated, respectively. The diode tips are mounted and electrically connected to metal patterns formed on the same surface of a printed circuit on which fixed contact pairs are formed. In order to cover the diode tips, a transparent plate is overlaid on the printed circuit board and has lamp cover portions. The transparent plate is also provided with small upwardly opening funnel shaped slits at positions between adjacent lamp cover portions, whereby light from one light emission diode is prevented from leaking to a lamp cover corresponding to the adjacent light emission diode.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an electrical indication of improper thread tension to enable the sewing operation to be exactly accomplished.

Abstract: A device for controlling electric current flowing through a conductor-coated, condensation-free transparent glass sheet in response to the presence of moisture on the surface of the sheet. Moisture-detecting electrodes forming part of an oscillator are attached to the surface of the sheet and receive an AC voltage developed within the oscillator. The electrical resistance between the electrodes changes in response to the amount of moisture and alters the level of output from an oscillator. A relay circuit is controlled by the oscillator output to switch a power supply circuit on and off, thereby controlling the current flowing through the glass sheet.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the transmission of a digital code is disclosed wherein a block consisting of a predetermined number of bits is extracted at a predetermined cycle from an information pulse train before the bit rate conversion thereof so that a check code corresponding to the states of this block may be formed, and inserted into the time slots formed by the bit rate conversion of the information pulse train, and the check code with the information pulse train after bit rate conversion, is transmitted to a receiving equipment. In the receiving equipment, a check code is formed from the received information pulse train, whose bit rate is restored to its original rate, in a manner exactly similar to that used in the transmitting equipment and is compared with the transmitted check code, that is, the check code is extracted from the received pulse train.