Abstract: A tactile panel includes a vibration panel, a yoke provided to face the vibration panel, drive coils secured on a circumference of the vibration panel, and a set of permanent magnets arranged between the vibration panel and the yoke. The vibration panel is held by panel holding members, into which both sides of the vibration panel are inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to a vibration direction of the vibration panel.

Abstract: An input device includes an operation portion, a holding portion, a detection portion and at least a switch. The holding portion holds the operation portion so that the operation portion is rotatable around a given axis. The detection portion detects a rotational position of the operation portion with respect to the holding portion. A condition of the switch changes according to an external force exerted to the operation portion.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a ground plate, a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate at a predetermined angle for a predetermined length, the feeding unit being prepared perpendicular to the ground plate, and a non-conductive section formed in the ground plate. The shape of the non-conductive section is adjusted according to a desired frequency characteristic.

Abstract: An input device, which detects a position of a movable object moving on a given plane and inputs an instruction, includes a first detection portion and a second detection portion. The first detection portion detects the position of the movable object in a first direction. The second detection portion detects the position of the movable object in a second direction crossed at right angle to the first direction. The first detection portion and the second detection portion detect movement amounts of the movable object in the first direction and in the second direction, based on a change of either a light quantity or a magnetic flux.

Abstract: A haptic panel apparatus is disclosed that enables an operator to sense movement of a touch panel through touch when an input is made. The touch panel is accommodated within a base member, and an electromagnetic drive mechanism is provided between the touch panel and the base member. When the operator operates the touch panel with his/her fingertip and an input is made, the electromagnetic drive mechanism is driven to induce the touch panel to recede. In turn, the operator senses the receding of the touch panel through his/her fingertip to recognize that an input has been properly made.

Abstract: An input device includes a substrate and a movable object that moves on the substrate. One of the substrate and the movable object includes a magnetic field generator and the other of the substrate and the movable object includes electromagnetic conversion elements provided to detect magnetic fields generated outside of the magnetic field generator.

Abstract: A connector for differential transmission is disclosed. The connector includes a housing made of an insulating material, the housing including a connector connection opening on its top face, multiple signal contact pairs each including first and second signal contact members, the signal contact members each including a signal terminal part, and multiple ground contact members each including ground terminal parts. The signal contact pairs and the ground contact members are disposed alternately in the housing so that the signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members of the signal contact pairs and the ground terminal parts of the ground contact members are provided on the side of the bottom face of the housing. The signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members extend in the same direction in each signal contact pair.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a plate-like ground plate, and a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate for a predetermined length at a predetermined angle. The feeding unit is constituted by a half-body, which is a body, such as a circular cone, halved by a plane perpendicular to the ground plate, and the feeding unit is prepared perpendicular to the ground plate.

Abstract: A tactile panel includes a vibration panel, a yoke provided to face the vibration panel, drive coils secured on a circumference of the vibration panel, and a set of permanent magnets arranged between the vibration panel and the yoke. The vibration panel is held by panel holding members, into which both sides of the vibration panel are inserted in a direction substantially perpendicular to a vibration direction of the vibration panel.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes a touch panel upper member for outputting a detection signal corresponding to an input position at which an input operation is executed, a moveable lower member disposed with respect to the touch panel upper member, an operation unit for executing the input operation, and an operation mechanism which, in accordance with the input operation of the operation unit, is operable to urge the moveable lower member into contact with the touch panel upper member at the input position to thereby transmit the input position to the touch panel upper member and output the detection signal corresponding to the input position.

Abstract: A connector includes multiple pairs of signal contacts arranged in a housing, and facilitates the wiring design and the wiring operation for substrates. The two signal contacts in each of the multiple pairs are arranged at a distance in the longitudinal direction of the housing. With this arrangement, excellent coupling can be established between the two signal contacts, and signals can be balanced-transmitted without causing a phase difference. Also, the lengths of each pair of wires of a wiring substrate to be connected to the multiple pairs of signal contacts can be easily made uniform. Accordingly, there is no need to prepare excessive wiring areas, and the substrate wiring design and the wiring operation can be simplified.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a ground plate, a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate at a predetermined angle for a predetermined length, the feeding unit being prepared perpendicular to the ground plate, and a non-conductive section formed in the ground plate. The shape of the non-conductive section is adjusted according to a desired frequency characteristic.

Abstract: A liquid fuel cell system is disclosed. The liquid fuel cell system includes a liquid fuel cell unit and a liquid fuel cartridge that can be connected to the liquid fuel cell unit. The liquid fuel cell unit and the liquid fuel cartridge each include a valve unit. The liquid fuel cartridge is connected to the liquid fuel cell unit so as to pour and supply liquid fuel that is a methanol solution from the liquid fuel cartridge to the liquid fuel cell unit. Using the supplied liquid fuel, the liquid fuel cell unit generates power to charge a battery. After the charging, both of the valve units are opened to return the liquid fuel remaining in the liquid fuel cell unit back to the liquid fuel cartridge, and thus, the liquid fuel cell unit is emptied.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna device includes a plate-like ground plate, and a feeding unit that extends from the ground plate for a predetermined length at a predetermined angle. The feeding unit is constituted by a half-body, which is a body, such as a circular cone, halved by a plane perpendicular to the ground plate, and the feeding unit is prepared perpendicular to the ground plate.

Abstract: A balanced transmission cable connector with improved high speed signal transmission characteristics is realized by directly connecting a balanced transmission cable to a plug structure. The plug structure includes a block unit, a ground contact, and adjacent pairs of a first signal contact and a second signal contact. The ground contact and the adjacent pairs of the first signal contact and the second signal contact are aligned in an alignment direction with respect to one another and are held by the block unit. The ground contact is disposed in between the adjacent pairs of the first signal contact and the second signal contact. The first signal contact includes a first signal wire connecting portion to which a first signal wire of the balanced transmission cable is connected, and the second signal contact includes a second signal wire connecting portion to which a second signal wire of the balanced transmission cable is connected.

Abstract: A balanced transmission cable connector with improved high speed signal transmission characteristics is realized by directly connecting a balanced transmission cable to a plug structure. The plug structure includes a block unit, a ground contact, and adjacent pairs of a first signal contact and a second signal contact. The ground contact and the adjacent pairs of the first signal contact and the second signal contact are aligned in an alignment direction with respect to one another and are held by the block unit. The ground contact is disposed in between the adjacent pairs of the first signal contact and the second signal contact. The first signal contact includes a first signal wire connecting portion to which a first signal wire of the balanced transmission cable is connected, and the second signal contact includes a second signal wire connecting portion to which a second signal wire of the balanced transmission cable is connected.

Abstract: A gasket is mounted on a connector device for providing an electromagnetic shielding. The gasket has a form of a rectangular frame, and includes a locking part on each of shorter-side portions opposing each other as shorter sides of the rectangular frame. The connector device includes a locked part in a metal article pressed into a through hole formed in an insulator. The gasket is mounted on the connector device by the locking part of the gasket hooking the locked part of the metal article.

Abstract: A connector for differential transmission is disclosed. The connector includes a housing made of an insulating material, the housing including a connector connection opening on its top face, multiple signal contact pairs each including first and second signal contact members, the signal contact members each including a signal terminal part, and multiple ground contact members each including ground terminal parts. The signal contact pairs and the ground contact members are disposed alternately in the housing so that the signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members of the signal contact pairs and the ground terminal parts of the ground contact members are provided on the side of the bottom face of the housing. The signal terminal parts of the first and second signal contact members extend in the same direction in each signal contact pair.

Abstract: A connector assembly including a jack connector and a plug connector. Each of the jack and plug connectors includes plural pairs of signal contact elements, the pairs being arranged parallel with each other in an array, and the signal contact elements of each of the pairs being arranged opposite to each other; plural ground contact elements, each of which is used as a shield to reduce crosstalk between two parallel the pairs of signal contact elements arranged side by side, the plural pairs of signal contact elements and the plural ground contact elements being alternately arranged in a row; and an electro-insulating body for supporting the signal contact elements and the ground contact elements in a mutually insulated arrangement. It is advantageous that each pair of signal contact elements is used for a balanced transmission line.

Abstract: A gasket is mounted on a connector device for providing an electromagnetic shielding. The gasket has a form of a rectangular frame, and includes a locking part on each of shorter-side portions opposing each other as shorter sides of the rectangular frame. The connector device includes a locked part in a metal article pressed into a through hole formed in an insulator. The gasket is mounted on the connector device by the locking part of the gasket hooking the locked part of the metal article.