Abstract: The present invention is directed to touch sensors with arrays of thin-film conductive polymer switches (e.g., diodes or transistors) that can be used to selectively apply voltage gradients across a resistive touch region of the touch sensor substrate. Touches on the touch sensor can then be sensed by measuring the voltage at the touch location on the resistive touch region.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to touch sensors with arrays of switches (e.g., diodes or transistors) that can be used to selectively apply voltage gradients across a resistive touch regions of the touch sensor substrate. Touches on the touch sensor can then be sensed by measuring the voltage at the touch location on the resistive touch region. The switch arrays take the form of strips of switches that can be cut from a prefabricated reel or a sheet and applied to the touchscreen substrate.

Abstract: When an input unit amplifier is employed in which transistors are longitudinally stacked in order that an input amplitude of a quantizing feedback circuit is made coincident with an output amplitude thereof, this quantizing feedback circuit cannot receive an ECL signal having a large amplitude under low power supply voltage. In a DC recovery circuit for correcting a shift contained in a DC level of an input signal by employing a quantizing feedback circuit having an adder, a comparator, and low-pass filters, a DC level of an input signal of the quantizing feedback circuit is compared with a DC level of an output signal thereof by an AGC circuit. A control signal corresponding to a level difference of these DC levels is supplied to a variable current source of a differential amplifier which constitutes a comparator so as to control a current of this variable current source.

Abstract: Functionalized silsesquioxanes containing from 6 to 24 silicon atoms and minimally about 67 mol percent RSiO3/2 moieties where R is a phenyl group bearing a chemically reactive functional group are highly suitable for use as nanoparticles in producing highly ordered nanocomposites of many types, containing a high proportion of interphase. The nanocomposites have unusual physicochemical properties due to the use of uniform, highly functionalized nanoparticles.

Abstract: A solution containing a metal alkoxide or oligomers thereof, a vinyl carboxylate polymer and an organic solvent is used, and, while low boiling substances containing the organic solvent is removed, both polycondensation of the metal alkoxide or oligomers thereof and saponification of the vinyl carboxylate polymer are conducted in parallel with each other and in the same reaction zone. On the occasion, the metal alkoxide or oligomers thereof is used in an amount of the metal atom present in the metal alkoxide or oligomers thereof of 0.01 to 100 moles based on 100 moles of the acyl group originating from the vinyl carboxylate unit present in the vinyl carboxylate polymer. This process can produce vinyl alcohol polymer compositions comprising a metal oxide without causing property unevenness, the compositions being capable of maintaining their excellent gas-barrier properties when exposed to high-temperature and high-humidity conditions or after being repeatedly bent.

Abstract: A frequency comparator for comparing the frequency of a predetermined clock signal with the clock frequency of a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal having a detector circuit for detecting a data change of the NRZ signal in an interval of one time period of the clock signal, and a comparator circuit for generating a comparison result only when a data change is detected by the detector. The detector includes a data change circuit for detecting a data change of the NRZ signal and a change position detector for detecting a data change position of the NRZ signal in a time period of the clock signal CLK by taking in the logic of a clock signal and an auxiliary clock signal having the phase delayed 90 degrees from that of the clock signal when a data change of the NRZ signal is detected. The comparator circuit has a setting circuit for setting a reference point for detecting the time period subsequent to the clock signal to generate the comparison result based on the reference point set by the setting circuit.