| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE37726 |
Method for transferring hot melt ink to a recording medium |
June 4, 2002 |
| The present invention discloses a method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of preparing an ink sheet provided with a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink layer and a transparent material sheet provided with a transparent hot-melt material |
| 7334923 |
Vehicle rearview mirror including a light-emitting diode apparatus |
February 26, 2008 |
| A vehicle rearview mirror including a housing, a mirror, an LED that has a light emitting element and plane-radiates light in a direction nearly vertical to the optical axis of the light emitting element, and a light-guiding member in which at least the one LED is incorporated at a p |
| 7249869 |
Light emitting device |
July 31, 2007 |
| A light emitting device includes a mark body, a substrate arranged in back of the mark body, an LED mounted on an opposite surface of the substrate to the mark body, and a light guide arranged on a closer side of the substrate to the LED and having an upper surface serving as a light |
| 7163322 |
Illumination device for license plate |
January 16, 2007 |
| In an illumination device for license plate which illuminates the license plate from the front side thereof, at least one light source consist of a white LED is arranged at a position upward or obliquely upward of the license plate in such a manner that optical axes thereof traverse with |
| 7119823 |
Retransfer printing method and printing apparatus thereof |
October 10, 2006 |
| In a process of peeling off a transfer layer of an intermediate transfer film, an amount of energy, which is supplied to a thermal head 3 so as to heat the thermal head 3, is changed in accordance with a location of the thermal head 3 in a peeling area 71P and its neighboring area. The a |
| 7029156 |
Light emitting apparatus and display |
April 18, 2006 |
| An opposed reflecting mirror is provided so as to face a light source. The opposed reflecting mirror is configured to reflect light rays, emitted from the light source, so as to allow the reflected light rays to advance in a predetermined direction. A light guide body having a plurality |
| 6990922 |
Indication system of meter part |
January 31, 2006 |
| This invention is to offer an indication system and method of a meter part having excellent visibility and designing property. Alight is irradiated from the first light source toward the indicating panel from the side of the indicating face for making the background part of the indicatin |
| 6893134 |
Planar light emitting device |
May 17, 2005 |
| A planar light emitting device has a planar light emitter. It has a layered structure composed of a transparent body and a semi-transparent body. The transparent body is made of a transparent synthetic resin containing no light scattering material. The semi-transparent body is made of a |
| 6550953 |
Light emitting diode lamp device |
April 22, 2003 |
| A casing accommodates therein three primary colors of chip LEDs. The casing is disposed in a through hole of a plate-shaped light guide. The chip LEDs are mounted on both surfaces of a substrate so as to face a peripheral surface of the through hole (light incident surface). The casing i |
| 6499852 |
Vehicle display lighting device |
December 31, 2002 |
| A vehicle display lighting device the lighting device includes a light emitting assembly arranged along the outer circumference of the display dial in front of the front surface. The light emitting assembly directs lights across at least the front surface of the display dial. The lightin |
| 6447134 |
Planar light emitting device |
September 10, 2002 |
| A planar light emitting device has a planar light emitter. It has a layered structure composed of a transparent body and a semi-transparent body. The transparent body is made of a transparent synthetic resin containing no light scattering material. The semi-transparent body is made of a |
| 5868423 |
Air bag system |
February 9, 1999 |
| In an air bag system according to the invention, there is employed a control device which can control the internal pressure of an air bag after expanded in such a manner that a buffer distance, for which the air bag after expanded can be compressed when it is contacted with an occupant, |
| 5707076 |
Air bag device |
January 13, 1998 |
| An air bag device is provided which uses an eddy current position sensor. A coil of the sensor is disposed on a seat frame or the like, as a portion of a vehicle body, which is difficult to deform at the beginning of a collision. A metal body as a detected body of the sensor is disposed |
| 5668720 |
Air bag controlling apparatus |
September 16, 1997 |
| A first velocity change value V1 is derived by integrating the deviation of a detected vehicle deceleration from a first deceleration reference value, e.g., 1 g, and a second velocity change value V2 is derived by integrating the deviation of the detected vehicle deceleration from a seco |
| 5382049 |
Air bag controlling apparatus |
January 17, 1995 |
| An air bag controlling apparatus for controlling inflation of an air bag for a motor vehicle and adapted to cooperate with (i) an inflator which provides said air bag with compressed gas when ignited by an igniter, and (ii) an acceleration sensor which generates an appropriate decelerati |
| 5342132 |
Method for transferring hot-melt ink to a recording medium |
August 30, 1994 |
| The present invention discloses a method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of preparing an ink sheet provided with a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink layer and a transparent material sheet provided with a transparent hot-melt material |
| 5319391 |
Thermal printing apparatus |
June 7, 1994 |
| A thermal printing apparatus for printing input gradational images, characters and figures by using multilevel density which can appropriately regulate the levels of the densities representing the gradational images etc. to be printed by a linear thermal head having n heating resistors |
| 5300351 |
Heat-sensitive hot-melt image transfer sheet |
April 5, 1994 |
| A heat-sensitive hot-melt image transfer sheet transfers an ink image to a recording sheet when selectively heated by the heating element of the thermal head of a thermal printer. The image transfer sheet comprises a base coated on a surface thereof with a matrix of circular hot-melt ink |
| 5300351 |
Heat-sensitive hot-melt image transfer sheet |
April 5, 1994 |
| A heat-sensitive hot-melt image transfer sheet transfers an ink image to a recording sheet when selectively heated by the heating element of the thermal head of a thermal printer. The image transfer sheet comprises a base coated on a surface thereof with a matrix of circular hot-melt ink |
| 5277501 |
Method for transferring hot-melt ink to a recording medium |
January 11, 1994 |
| The present invention discloses a method for thermally transferring an ink pattern to a recording medium, comprising the steps of preparing an ink sheet provided with a hot-melt and/or hot-sublimable ink layer and a transparent material sheet provided with a transparent hot-melt material |
| 5220343 |
Method for transferring hot-melt transparent protective material to a recording medium |
June 15, 1993 |
| A method for transferring a hot-melt transparent protective material comprising steps of; contacting an ink sheet on which one or more color hot-melt ink layers have been provided with a moving recording medium, pressing and heating a thermal head system having an array of heat eleme |
| 5051755 |
Thermal printing apparatus |
September 24, 1991 |
| A thermal printing apparatus prints input gradational images, characters and figures by using multilevel density regulates the levels of the densities representing the gradiational images etc. to be printed by a linear thermal head having n heating resistors arranged in a row. The pr |
| 4988973 |
Steering wheel |
January 29, 1991 |
| The present invention relates to steering wheels of automobiles provided with communication systems employing light transmitters, comprising a steering shaft, a boss plate fixed on the tip of the steering shaft, a ring portion mounted to said boss plate, light emitters and light rece |
| 4981039 |
Liquid level gauge |
January 1, 1991 |
| A gauge for detecting both the temperature and surface level of a fluid within a container. The gauge includes an elongated casing which extends into the fluid. A float which rises and falls with the fluid surface is slidably coupled to the casing and carries a magnet. A support member |
| 4968995 |
Thermal printer |
November 6, 1990 |
| A thermal printer comprises a thermal head and a printing data output circuit outputting printing data. A portion of the printing data is copied. The copied portion of the printing data is added to a head of the printing data to form a combination of the copied portion and the printing |
| 4926015 |
Liquid level sensor having a retained base plate |
May 15, 1990 |
| The liquid level sensor comprising a tubular case with an inner surface, a base plate having a wiring and disposed in the case so as to extend lengthwise of the case is disclosed. A switch member is disposed on the base plate and is electrically connected with the wiring. A float is |
| 4909080 |
Ultrasonic level gauge |
March 20, 1990 |
| An ultrasonic level gauge that measures the level of a test surface inside a tank. A guiding pipe guides the ultrasonic wave transmitted by an ultrasonic transceiver to the test surface, and guides the ultrasonic wave reflected by the test surface back to the ultrasonic transceiver. An |
| 4893190 |
Gradation control device for thermal ink-transfer type printing apparatus |
January 9, 1990 |
| A gradation control device for a thermal ink-transfer type printing apparatus controls an applying time of a current to each of heating elements of a thermal printing head depending on a voltage drop introduced between a power source and the thermal printing head, so that it is possi |
| 4862255 |
Color correcting circuit for thermal printer selectively outputting a second degree correction o |
August 29, 1989 |
| A color correcting circuit for thermal printer comprises a first circuit for obtaining a first degree correction operation result, a second circuit for obtaining a second degree correction operation result, and a difference limiting circuit for selectively outputting a correction data. |
| 4783668 |
Thermal printing apparatus |
November 8, 1988 |
| A thermal printing apparatus comprises a thermal printing head comprising heating elements which are applied with a constant current depending on printing data. One picture element is printed by use of at least two heating elements. Time periods in which heating times of the heating |
| 4772799 |
Optical communication system |
September 20, 1988 |
| A steering wheel equipped with an optical communication mechanism for allowing optical communication between the interior of the steering wheel or the steering wheel and a vehicle column with at least two light emitting elements for forming a redundant system by simultaneously emitti |
| 4723130 |
Thermal printhead |
February 2, 1988 |
| A structure of a thermal head of the type using an ink paper or a heat-sensitive paper is disclosed. The structure includes an array of units each comprising a single resistance body and a pair of electrode members which respectively correspond to a first and a second heat-generating |
| 4590490 |
Thermal transfer color recorder |
May 20, 1986 |
| A method and apparatus for performing a thermal transfer recording, uses an ink ribbon having a plurality of ink parts which are coated with ink of different colors. The ink parts are successively arranged in a longitudinal direction of the ink ribbon. First, when performing a record |
| 4564876 |
Rotary magnetic head device |
January 14, 1986 |
| A rotary magnetic head device comprises a rotary body mounted with rotary magnetic heads which rotate while scanning over a traveling magnetic tape, where the heads scan over tracks formed obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tape to reproduce recorded signals, a |
| 4555714 |
Apparatus and method for thermal ink transfer printing |
November 26, 1985 |
| A plurality of heat generating resistors (11a, 11b) arranged in line in a thermal head are driven such that two consecutive heat generating resistors (11a, 11b) are combined to cover a single picture element whose desired density is represented by each datum. A head drive circuit is |
| 4549201 |
Circuit arrangement for digitizing and storing color video signal |
October 22, 1985 |
| An input composite color video signal is processed to derive a luminance signal and three primary color signals first, and then only a high frequency component of the luminance signal is A/D converted by a first A/D converter, while only low frequency component of each of the three p |
| 4527171 |
Thermal transfer printing employing a binder |
July 2, 1985 |
| In thermal ink transfer printing, a layer of thermally fusable binder is deposited on a recording sheet prior to the transfer print of thermally fusable ink from a transfer sheet to provide a strong bond between the underlying recording sheet and the overlying ink deposits. In one em |
