Abstract: There is provided a heating element for a hair styling device, including an electrically insulating inner ceramic layer, an electrically conductive resistive heating layer disposed on and in contact with the inner layer, and an electrically insulating outer ceramic layer disposed on and in contact with the resistive heating layer. There is also provided a method for manufacturing the heating element. There is further provided a hair setting device for curling hair including the heating element a cylindrical barrel surrounding the heating element.

Abstract: There is provided a heating element for an electric air heater including an electric power source, a ceramic base, and a conductive heating film substantially uniformly deposited on at least a portion of a surface of the base and electrically connected to the power source. There is also provided a method for manufacturing the heating element. There is further provided an electric hot air blower including a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, a fan operatively connected to an electric motor, and an electric heating element located inside the housing that includes a ceramic base and a conductive film substantially uniformly deposited on a surface of the base and electrically connected to a power source. The electric heating element is located along an air flow path of the blower for heating air flow.

Abstract: A tilt switch has an electrical terminal on its top end and an electrical terminal on its bottom end. It comprises a conductive can with an opening on the top end side serving as the electrical terminal on the bottom end and a conductive cap covering the opening of the conductive can serving as the electrical terminal on the top end. An insulator member attached to the conductive can surrounding the side of the conductive cap insulating the conductive cap from said conductive can. Inside the conductive can is at least one rollable conductive member. The rollable conductive member is not in electrical contact with the conductive cap when resting on the bottom inside said conductive can. A system, which includes electrical circuits that employ the tilt switch, is responsive to the orientation of the tilt switch.

Abstract: An automotive rear view mirror includes a primary flat reflective surface that generates an undistorted image, and three secondary reflective surfaces that are curved so as to increase the field of view laterally and also vertically. The curved reflective surfaces include a relatively large trapezoidal surface curved in the horizontal plane for increasing the field of view in the horizontal direction, and two smaller triangular curved reflective surfaces contiguous with the upper and lower boundaries of the trapezoidal surface for increasing the field of view in the vertical direction.