Abstract: A connector including a shell, an inner body inside the shell, a terminal held by the inner body and disposed inside the shell, a ground terminal, and an outer body. The outer body includes a generally tubular first portion extending in a first direction, a second portion, and an accommodation space in the first and second portions securely accommodating the shell. The second portion is larger than the first portion in outer cross-sectional dimensions and/or wall thickness in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second portion has a hole extending from an outer face of the second portion to the accommodation space. The ground terminal is in contact with, or contiguous with, the shell and is disposed in the hole of the outer body. The ground terminal includes a portion exposed from the outer body or partly located outside the outer body.

Abstract: A cable includes: a core; a first insulating layer that has a property biased toward positive polarity or negative polarity in a triboelectric series and coats the core; an (n+1)-th insulating layer that has a property biased toward a polarity opposite to a polarity of an n-th insulating layer and coats the n-th insulating layer, N being a natural number not less than 2, n being 1, . . . , N?1; a braid that coats the N-th insulating layer; and a sheath that coats the braid.

Abstract: A microphone assembly including a main board and a microphone. The microphone includes a capacitor or a MEMS chip, a case accommodating the capacitor or the MEMS chip, and a microphone board electrically connected to the capacitor or the MEMS chip. The microphone board has a larger outer dimension than the case and includes a fixing portion and a connecting portion. The case is fixed onto the fixing portion. The connecting portion is a portion of the microphone board, the portion being located outside the case and electrically and mechanically connected to the main board.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including a vibratable plate, a touch sensor, a vibration generator including a plunger, an operation face, an opposed part opposed to the vibratable plate in a first direction, and a cushioning member. The plunger is configured to reciprocate in the first direction so as to vibrate the vibratable plate in the first direction. The operation face is to be touched by a detection object for inputting to operate the touch sensing device, and is vibratable as a result of vibration of the vibratable plate. The cushioning member is interposed between the opposed part and the vibratable plate in the first direction. The cushioning member is configured to reduce an amount of displacement in the first direction of the vibratable plate arising from the vibration in the first direction such that the amount is smaller than an amount of movement in the first direction of the plunger.

Abstract: A microphone unit including a substrate, a microphone, a fixing member, and a film. The substrate includes a first face, a second face opposite to the first face, and a through-hole extending from the first face to the second face through the substrate. The microphone is mounted on or fixed onto the second face of the substrate and has a sound hole in communication with the through-hole of the substrate. The fixing member is fixed onto the first face of the substrate such as to be located around the through-hole. The film provides at least one of dustproofness and waterproofness and is fixed onto the fixing member such as to cover the through-hole.

Abstract: There is provided a secondary coil module receiving supply of electric power via a primary coil by contactless power transfer technique. The secondary coil module includes a core formed of magnetic material, the core having a tubular portion in the form of a tube and a bottom portion formed integral with the tubular portion in such a manner as to close an opening of the tubular portion formed at one axial end portion thereof, a storage battery accommodated within an accommodation space provided inside the tubular portion and configured to be charged by the power via the primary coil and a coil winding disposed outside the core and on the side of the bottom portion of the core.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including an panel including an operation face, a touch sensor fixed to the panel, a circuit board being spaced from the opposite face opposite to the operation face of the panel, an electronic component on a first face of the board, an opposing part in opposing spaced relation to a second face of the board, a coupling member coupling the panel to the board on an outer side relative to the touch sensor and the electronic component, and a switch between the second face of the board and the opposing part. An optical path extends from the electronic component through the touch sensor and the panel. The board relatively approaches the opposing part in accordance with the forward movement of the panel and relatively moves away from the opposing part in accordance with the backward movement of the panel. The switch produces or changes an output signal in accordance with the approach of the board.

Abstract: A power source apparatus includes a power source section configured to output a current comprising a preset current value as a power supply current after reducing a voltage value of a power supply voltage in case the power supply current reaches a preset current value, a first protection section configured to stop operation of the power source section if the power supply voltage stays below a first voltage value until lapse of a first period subsequent to establishment of connection between a mobile terminal device and a power supply terminal, and a second protection section configured to cause the power source section to output a power supply voltage of a voltage value based on instruction information by a second time interval if the voltage value of the power supply voltage falls below a second voltage value after reaching a target voltage value.

Abstract: A plastic laminate structure including layers laminated together, a functional element being an electrode, a display element, an antenna, or a sensor on a second layer of the layers, conductive lines on the second layer, and a dummy conductor on one of the layers. The layers include a first layer of a plastic material and the second layer fixed to the first layer. The first conductive lines are connected to the functional element. The dummy conductor surrounds the functional element and the conductive lines. Each conductive line includes a parallel portion forming at least part of each conductive line. First and second distances are each 500 ?m or less. The first distance is a distance in the array direction between the parallel portions. The second distance is a distance between the endmost conductive line and the dummy conductor in a plane direction extending along a face of the second layer.

Abstract: An optical fiber including a circuit board, a converter, an optical fiber, an external connecting part, and a pressable part. The circuit board includes first and second faces opposite to each other. The first face has first and second regions being different regions. The second face has third and fourth regions on the opposite side to the first and second regions, respectively. The converter is an opto-electronic or electro-optic converter on the first region of the circuit board. The optical fiber includes a leading end portion optically connected to the converter. A circuit on the first region of the circuit board is electrically connected to the converter. The external connecting part is disposed on the fourth region of the circuit board. The pressable part is fixed to the circuit board and positioned on the second region of the circuit board without contacting the converter, the optical fiber, or the circuit.

Abstract: A male connector includes a male body, a male communication antenna, and a first male circuit board. The male communication antenna is provided inside the male body and is configured to wirelessly communicate a signal. The first male circuit board is electrically connected to the male communication antenna. The invention also provides a female connector including a female body, a female communication antenna, and a first female circuit board. The female communication antenna is provided inside the female body and configured to wirelessly communicate a signal. The first female circuit board is electrically connected to the female communication antenna.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical component including a resin part having translucency and a phase plate. The phase plate is configured to be disposed on an emitting direction side of a display part capable of emitting linearly polarized light. The resin part is uncontrolled in terms of phase difference. The phase plate is configured to be disposed between the display part and the resin part. The phase plate has three to five times as large retardation as the resin part.

Abstract: A male connector includes a male body, a male communication antenna, and a first male circuit hoard. The male communication antenna is provided inside the male body and is configured to wirelessly communicate a signal. The first male circuit board is electrically connected to the male communication antenna. The invention also provide a female connector including female body, as female communication antenna, and a first female circuit board. The female communication antenna is provided inside the female body and configured to wirelessly communicate a signal. The first female circuit board is electrically connected to the female communication antenna.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including first electrodes at a first height, and second electrodes and first ground electrodes at a second height. The first electrodes are spaced apart along a first direction and each include first and second overlapping portions. The second electrodes are spaced apart along a second direction and include pairs of adjacent second electrodes. The second electrodes each include wide and narrow portions. The wide portions are spaced apart in the first direction and include pairs of adjacent wide portions. Each narrow portion is smaller in the second direction than each wide portion and interconnects the corresponding adjacent wide portions. The narrow portions overlap the corresponding first overlapping portions. Each first ground electrode, located between the corresponding adjacent second electrodes, includes first and second portions. Each first portion is located between the corresponding wide portions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a touch sensing device including at least 1) to 5) as follows: 1) preparing a material film being biaxially stretched and including an available area that is a partial area in a widthwise direction of the material film, the available area extending in a lengthwise direction of the material film and including first and second segments, the first and second segments defining different areas in the lengthwise direction; 2) forming an electrode group on one of the first and second segments; 3) cutting a first piece out of the material film to make the first piece including the first segment; 4) cutting a second piece out of the material film to make the second piece including the second segment; and 5) bonding the first segment to the second segment, substantially maintaining orientations of the first segment and the second segment as before the cutting.

Abstract: A connector includes a cable including a plurality of core wires, a plurality of contacts, a body, a body cover housing the body, and an inner mold part. The plurality of contacts are respectively connected to ends, on one side, of the plurality of core wires of the cable. The body includes a plurality of first grooves that have an arc shape on a section orthogonal to an extending direction of the core wires and respectively support the ends, on one side, of the core wires in a contact state. The body cover includes a plurality of lines of rails on an inner side surface thereof, the plurality of lines of rails respectively having second grooves and being extended in parallel with the extending direction of the core wires, the second grooves having an arc shape on the section orthogonal to the extending direction of the core wires.